Word: quieting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...considered returning to private life and getting a nice quiet job as weather forecaster for the CRIMSON, but the Monday mails were flooded with condoling letters from my admirers. "I'm really glad, Joe," said one, "It proves you are human after all." And of course I am human. One of my friends has well described me as "a little more than a man, a little less than...
...once does this happen, but again and again. The plumbing in Farnsworth is an old offender. If there is no other remedy, why not sacrifice luxury to comfort and move the reserved volumes to some retreat in the basement where at least there is quiet...
...onetime President leads there a dignified but almost forgotten existence. There sits the aged Justice Holmes in his 85th year.* There sit the neat Mr. Sanford, the rangy Mr. McReynolds, the substantial Mr. Stone, Mr. Brandeis of the rumpled hair, and three other quiet gentlemen, Mr. Sutherland, Mr. Van Devanter, Mr. Butler. They seem like an institution of the ages, and in a way they are. They are appointed for life to a court as old as the Government. Yet more than half of them are newcomers, comparatively speaking, Taft, Sutherland, Butler, Sanford and Stone having been appointed since President...
...Boston Transcript was reminded of a quiet man, still (presumably) knocking about the world somewhere, "who at the age of about 50 made up his mind to spend the rest of his life in studying at various universities. . . .This person first took the course at Paris and then went on to Vienna, with the intention of going on to Jena and Heidelberg after that, and of eventually bringing up at Oxford or Cambridge. . . . He must be a sort of Wandering Jew of erudition, with the important difference . . . that he goes around the world happily instead of miserably, and may leave...
Complete failure of the University's forward to cooperate and their total back of sustained pressure enabled the Cornell goalguard to enjoy a quiet afternoon...