Word: quieted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What does the Harvard man read? There are three men about the Square who can answer with authority; for it is the newsdealer's part to watch the diminishing of his stacks and thence to prophesy the next month's demand for magazines quiet or gaudy. So the men whose shops are in sight of the Rotunda speak both with authority and with figures...
Heaven opened. Arrowsmith had every facility, quiet, no interference. He had Gottlieb and one Terry Wickett, just such a lie-hunter as was Arrowsmith. He raced at his work, struck an unknown germ-eater, "Phage," and paused on the threshold of fame to establish scientific certainty. Came another blow. McGurk Institute, founded to cleanse a grubby name, could not risk loss of publicity. He was ordered to publish his find at once. He refused. A Frenchman found Phage, got the publicity. Arrowsmith was in bad odor at McGurk, even at McGurk, supposedly one of the three strongholds Science...
...order that the unfortunate four out of every five may understand the snag of their dental downfall, the great American Tooth Brush King, from the quiet and seclusion of Atlantic City, yesterday divulged the following information. America must use 330,000,000 tooth brushes a year; at present barely 40,000,000 are plied and discarded...
...tolling-bells were drowned in a roar of gunfire-the body of Friedrich Ebert had baen lowered into its last resting place, following a Catholic burial service.* Then, all was quiet except for the shuffling of unwilling and retreating footsteps and the thump of the earth as the diggers began to fill in the grave...
...orders restraining Borglum from removing or damaging any of his models. They tried the door of the hut; it was locked. They peered through the window. Representatives of the press who came up at that moment peered over their shoulders. In the dim light, on the floor of the quiet interior, they beheld unmistakable fragments-the torn limbs, the broken heads of Generals Lee, Jackson and their gallant soldiers, bits of plaster, pieces of stone. They had come too late...