Word: quieted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...need citation. The names of Trudeau, Bergoine, Becquerel, Muller, Macfayden, and hosts of this who have died in the service of humanity are too deeply engraved in the medical and scientific history of the world to fade with the passage of time. There is an impersonal heroism in such quiet sacrifice that endures while other more briefly startling varieties sink gently into oblivion...
...Narrow Street. Quiet, light comedy. Matt Moore, as a muddler, is unmuddled by Dorothy Devore, waif. Conventional but commendable...
While still in his thirties, this man began a "quiet outpour, or rather efflux" of novels and tales that was scarcely slackened by the masses of miscellaneous writing that he did. "The deposition of literature in his case was unceasing because it was organic; he secreted it like ivory or pearl...
...Mexico City, President Calles hastened to quiet the British. Believing that a conciliatory attitude might do much to improve Anglo-Mexican relations, severely strained by the murder, he ordered the court at Puebla to hurry disposition of the prisoners. It was believed that appeal would be refused, that they were soon...
...short weeks of vacation have broken the thread of students habits--if one had them. Upon the golf links at Pinehurst, upon the sands at Miami, on the toboggan at Lake Placid, or in the quiet comfort of the family fireside, the Muses whispered in faint and unreal tones; Kant's "Critique" somehow seemed impertinent logic. But now the holidays are over. The dirty stop of Cambridge streets recalls a reality not to be doubted...