Word: quieter
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...adjustment to the war. Once the heartbeat's needle had fluctuated violently at every little victory or defeat; a picture, a story, a speech, a bulletin was enough to drive the country to its knees or raise it to strutting tiptoes. Now the national pulse was quieter; the people had partly steeled themselves, had partly grown accustomed to the changes & chances of war news. Only the most violent of shocks now could shake or elate the nation...
...instead. But Author Wylie's book might be of far greater importance than its own intrinsic worth if readers in any appreciable numbers would act seriously on his old and central recommendation-"know thyself"-as well as on a thing he fails to recommend-the study of those quieter, subtler, maturer diagnosticians who are casing the same field...
...line with Republican policy. Pennsylvania's Pew-Grundy organization has been strengthened considerably by the election of Governor Edward Martin, an Old Guardsman. Both Pew and Grundy are New Deal haters and a little afraid of Willkie's progressiveness. They would be much happier with a quieter and more conservative...
...lull in fighting may have meant that porcine General Tomoyuki Yamashita was readying what he hopes will be the final offensive against Bataan's defenders. In any event, the front MacArthur left was quieter than the one he went...
...sheer racket the shipyards of 1918 were rivaled only by the Western Front, for into every 10,000-ton freighter were battered over a half-million rivets. In many modern ships nearly all these rivets have been eliminated. Result is that shipyards today are much quieter, and to gapers outside their guarded walls the chief evidence of activity within is the firefly flashing of arc welders clambering among the hulls...