Word: quieted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hankow, about 500 miles due west from Shanghai on the Yang-tsze-kiang River in the inland Province of Hupeh. Despite the efforts of Tuchun Hsia Yao-nan to maintain quiet, an ugly situation rapidly developed. Foreign women, children and missionaries left the city on the eve of an attack by rioters on the British Volunteer Armory and Japanese shops. The British used machine-guns on the rioters; many were killed and wounded...
...Lincoln Ellsworth, had flown with Explorer Roald Amundsen of Norway a fortnight before (TIME, June 1). The father had made their flight possible with a purse of $100,000 after twice discountenancing the adventure and urging his son to rest with him in the mellow ease and quiet of old-world culture with which he had surrounded himself. Now, dying, he pondered his surrender, weighed the dangers over and over, longed for news?but passed without hearing...
...intellectually simply. In more tranquil periods the supreme duty is to think aright. It is then that opinions can, and should, be formed that will direct action when the stress comes. Let us not forget that in peace the conflicting opinions are formed that later produce wars; that in quiet times the social ideas grow which, if erroneous, collect the explosives for subsequent catastrophes. It is then that the duty is incumbent to form, and help others to form, correct, unbiased opinions, particularly upon these subjects in which we may have special means of reaching a right judgment...
...Morocco, the week was relatively quiet. A number of Riff attacks at isolated points were repulsed by the French, with losses on both sides...
...virtue been so curious about her sisters." But, culture being reflected in manners, these naive ones are of good report. "They are developing new resources in human intercourse." The Lady and the Carpet-More of the same mood, wherein globe-trotting female self-expressionists are contrasted with 1) a quiet, acute Circassian, the stay-at-home spouse of a ship's surgeon; 2) a self-made young business woman from Harlem who, gazing on Roman antiquities, simply remarked her preference for things brand...