Word: quieting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Quiet in the hog sty!" bellowed Prussian Communists. "Silence in the robbers' den!" roared Prussian Fascists. Amid stentorian shouts for stillness, all proceedings in the Prussian Landtag were temporarily abandoned...
Pilot von Orman is a quiet studious chap of 32, an Ohioan, a graduate of the Case School of Applied Science. Ballooning has made him an astute meteorologist. At the Goodyear plant in Akron, where he is employed, his advice is considered invaluable upon whether or not to go fishing...
...Carnegie last week at Princeton after the Harvard ball game to watch the crew race. Pennsylvania, Columbia and Princeton had their eights lined up near the dam. In the shimmering twilight they pushed out from the referee's launch, the three crews rhythmically beating their way through the quiet waters. Pennsylvania took the lead. At the half mile it became evident to the colorful gallery that the conqueror of Harvard the preceding week would win as she pleased. The red and blue pressed on inexorably under steady stroking to win, by three and a half lengths from Princeton...
...Story.* A country carpenter?tall, inarticulate, muscled like a bison ?marries a horse-breeder's daughter and moves in from Huntington, L. I., to hammer up frame houses in Brooklyn, the lustily sprawling community of 1823. His wife, Louisa, bears nine children in quiet, capable fecundity, expressing through motherhood and housewifery certain deep stirrings that are incommunicable to her husband...
...Kapnos," published in duodecimo size by the Southworth Press of Portland, Me., owes its form, the author states, to Logan Pearsall Smith's "Trivia." "Whereas Mr. Smith views life in a pretty way," says Patek, "in the quiet decay of a country gentleman, 'Kapnos,' contrastedly, is written from the viewpoint of youth and of the many wandering thoughts that strike youth and perhaps baffle...