Word: quieted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wicks is touring the country in the interests of the Manchester guardian. When questioned by a CRIMSON reporters over the possibility of Lloyd George being returned to power, Mr. Wicks said that at present Mr. Lloyd George is remaining quiet, but if ever occasion demands a figure to champion an ideal, Lloyd George is the man, for there is no man in England who appears to better advantage "riding a white charger and championing a cause...
According to announcements made yesterday the Harvard Chess club will meet the Jolly Rogers Chess club of Boston in a six board match this afternoon at 2 o'clock in the Quiet Room of the Union...
...life, and the thought and the ideals of the eastern and the western civilizations. It has grown wider with the passing of the centuries. The material conflict between the East and the West--the first reaching out of the tendrils of empire on the one side, and the quiet acceptance of the inevitable, in appearance, at least, on the other--has only emphasized the space that still separates the ideas of the two. The abyss has seemed unbridgeable...
...narrative of time, and the description of place, he has indicated the spirit of India which is the setting, and the powerful practical idealism of the prophet himself. He has come as near as is humanly possible to a four-dimensional biography. He himself has caught some of the quiet fire of sincerity, of the devotion to practical idealism which is in the soul of Gandhi. Mr. Rolland has the power belonging to mystics of the utmost lucidity of expression...
...Significance. Mr. Burt's novel tries to view the contemporary scene and to make some interpretation of it. "Work," says Gulian, "work that fills every crevice of your passion for work; love, as much a part of you as your breath; and a background of quiet beauty." It is a fair formula. But how much of it would Gulian have fulfilled without accident? He himself tried work of various sorts and did not find ,that it filled every crevice- just to take one of the three. Nevertheless, it is an interesting, serious, first novel. At times...