Word: quieted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...eminent Greek professor once gave as a reason for the study of that language the feeling of quiet superiority a Greek scholar was able to maintain over the vast majority of people who did not share in his accomplishments. And so with the Photographic Department of the CRIMSON...
...students of Harvard University. Until they prove themselves to the contrary they so remain. And there are certain definite duties of the student at Harvard, invested as he is with the freedom of Harvard. He must be a gentleman. A gentleman respects tradition. And the traditions of Harvard are quiet traditions. Nothing so bespeaks a vulgar and impoverished intellect as noise in word or action. He must be a thinking being. Nothing so departs from the norm of thinking as the quick adherence to futile and fanciful phenomena. With an open mind the member of the Class...
...that President Lowell initiated two years ago. Lionel and Mower are the two dormitories built in the northwest corner of the Yard, and flanking Holden Chapel the first religious center of the University, on both sides. Mower, together with Phillips Brooks Brooks House, Stoughton Hall and Holden form a quiet quadrangle that seems miles away from the bustle of Massachusetts Avenue, and Lionel forms another such quadrangle with Holden, Hollis and Harvard Hall...
Like all U. S. voyagers in England, he enjoyed the quiet, the courtesy, the fine products of the English specialty shop. These, the result of intense retail competition, were typical of 19th Century British trade. It was pleasant to shop in them. But, to the mind of Mr. Selfridge, restless in retirement, they seemed expensive to operate, each with its separate overhead charges. The U. S. department store, while more raucous, was more economical and, too, more convenient for customers. It should be possible to merge the advantages of both the British and the U. S. systems of retailing...
...BOOK WITHOUT A NAME-Anonymous - Brentano's ($2.50). The lady of this 18th Century journal seems to have lived in a quiet way, in a Hall, by a forest, with her natural son, a few friends and a few gypsies for company. Some evenings she would draw close to her bedroom fire and reflect upon her unconventional estate, her mother love, the perfection of her absent lover, passing events in politics, art, literature, or upon life itself as she found it in her solitude. The texture of her mind was altogether extraordinary, far in advance of its time, indeed...