Word: quieted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fiume itself, conditions were quiet, the only notable event being the expulsion of 4,000 unemployed by order of the new Military Governor, the Italian General Gaetano Giardino. This was done in order to save money. No citizens of Fiume were expelled...
...political situation is generally quiet, the Communist element being deprived of their leaders, who are in prison or on the other side of the borders of Spain. King Alfonso is reported to have been forced to accept the Dictatorship or abdicate. The Directorate is not unpopular in Spain and if it is successful in carrying out its reforms it will undoubtedly consolidate the Spanish Monarchy...
...reaching the junior or senior class within the first four groups. This arrangement is far more just all round than the previous one. Students who have given such proof of earnest scholarship are more likely to be really interested in music than ennuied students merely in search of a quiet place to sleep. On the other hand students who have for two and even three years struggled up into the first four groups deserve some cool oasis in which to ease their labors...
...college Office. Last year there would have been a double line extending down Kirkland Street to Massachusetts Avenue, and the freshman class would have advertised itself by its clamoring and complaints. But this year the nine-hundred-and-thirty-and-more novices were initiated with nearly perfect organization and quiet...
...moment the friends and opponents of the League are joined in hot debate as to the success of the League in handling the Greco-Italian crisis. By its quiet use of the public opinion of the world, say the pro-Leaguers, Geneva brought a restraining influence to bear on Mussolini and saved the situation, establishing its own position as a permanent force for peace. But the critics are up in wrath claiming that the death-knell of the League has been sounded, flouted and defied by Italy, and requiring only the in pace requiescat" or the equivalent pagan expression...