Word: quieted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that its leaders agree with Sidney Webb on the "inevitability of gradual-ness", that Premier MacDonald is a constitutionalist, rather than a Marxianist, make it probable that this consent will not soon be retracted. Unlike its neighbors across the Channel, England's greatest revolutions have taken place in the quiet course of constitutional development. It is a testimony to the permanence and strength of the labor movement that it has sought and gained power by the traditional mode of election. And since it is conservative in its methods if not in its ideals, the alleged "socialistic" party should attract those...
When the tumult was loudest, Senator "Jim" Watson of Indiana, premier politician of the Republican Party, rose to make the first speech he has made in months. He tried to quiet the tumult by "explaining" the President's letter. It was not directed at the Senate, but at Mr. Pinchot, said he. The explanation was weak and failed to explain...
Directions given in a letter sent out by Helson instruct the participants to get apart by themselves for the six minutes of the experiments, and assume a quiet, restful state of mind, as passive as possible, as if they were going to sleep. After the time is up they are directed to record all the thoughts and images received during the six minutes...
...make his speech of response, the audience again rose to its feet, and only after several minutes could he make himself heard above the clapping and applause. Then he stepped forward on the platform, and with his hands clasped before him, spoke in a quiet, restrained voice...
...Alumni Directory, bound in crimson leather, containing the names of all living Harvard men, numbering more than 43,000. We trus, that it may be to you a fireside friend, speaking to you as the voice of Harvard; and that in the sunshine of the morning and the quiet of the evening this voice may murmur to you, in a melody charming as the harp of Orpheus, of the admiration, gratitude and love of the men of Harvard, and breathe to you their prayer that your years may be long in the house of your