Word: quieting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from reality?" Thus he voices the general suspicion that more than a few teachers in great colleges, as well as in less advanced departments of education, have turned to this profession not through a fierce and productive desire to plant knowledge where it will flourish but to find a quiet academic breakwater where they can dream comfortably...
...German Monarchist press burst into one unanimous roar of anguish, Herr Stresemann demurely stated: "I am leaving with my wife and sons for two weeks of quiet in Switzerland, which will include a visit to Locarno...
...followers, the Swedenborgians, form a quiet, modest sect, which nevertheless sends out persistent propaganda of their faith. Last week they announced in their chief periodical, The New-Church Messenger, an appeal for $100,000 to make facile a reprinting of their master's works?32 volumes. Clarence Walker Barron, editor of Barren's Financial Weekly and of the Wall Street Journal, heads the funds committee, promised to get $50,000 himself, urged other church members to contribute another...
...tumult and the shouting, in fact, all the wowseries and whiffle bangings of last week have faded into obscurity and Baltimore, as Boston settles down, if not to the domination's of the Society for the Prevention of Profligate Abstractions, at least to the quiet and calm which is as much a part of the town as the diversity of her minor monotonies. Genuine reflection, however does continue and prompts an occasional reference to the story of the lady whose name was not Lou and the man who sold the story on Brimstone Corner...
...district, throughout the South except the Delta country, in northern Texas, along the Mexican Border (except the Texas line), coastal California from San Francisco south, in the Columbia valley and Puget Sound areas, and on the easterly side of the northern Rocky Mountains. Elsewhere business was fair; nowhere quiet...