Word: quieted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Committee was out of the hole, with $45,000 to boot. Besides, National Committeemen had brought about $25,000 to help towards paying off the debt. Out of debt, and $70,000 clear! Quiet, modest Cordell Hull, its Chairman, had brought the Committee...
...determine exactly how many men are atheists. As for the rank and file of Harvard men, so far as my observation of them has gone, I believe them to be fundamentally concerned about God. Our precious heritage of non-interference with personal matters has encouraged in Harvard men a quiet formulation of belief which needs no shouting from the house-top to reinforce it, nor public confession to fix it. HARRV REIFF...
Admiral von Tirpitz, Hochadmiral der Deutsche See Flotte warhend des Krieges: "A Berlin despatch stated that I inserted a want advertisement in a newspaper, announcing that any modest young man wishing a quiet, refined abode might have a furnished room in my residence...
...modest young man wishing a quiet, refined abode...
...officers of Harvard as to the students. Perhaps if I were running a preparatory school I should have chapel made compulsory, but not in a college. At Yale the turmoil during the service is terrible. For a popular preacher the best that can be expected is a general semi-quiet reading of newspapers. And that is because of compulsory chapel...