Word: quieting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...outer office of the Rumanian Ministry of Agriculture, last week, clerks and undersecretaries pottered somnolently at their tasks. Into the quiet office marched two strangely hilarious young men with curiously mottled skin. They shook hands violently with everyone in the room, then demanded to see the Minister of Agriculture, C. Argetoianu. "My God!" screamed the Minister's secretary, "Lepers! Unclean! Unclean!" Bravely he stationed himself before the door of his chief's sanctum while panic-stricken clerks and minor officials, overturning chairs and tables, stampeded to the outer air. Prudent Minister Argetoianu remained behind his desk while...
...QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT? Erich Maria Remarque?Little, Brown...
...London, Conn., June 14. The Crimson oarsmen spent another comparatively quiet day yesterday with the crucial race of the season now less than a week off. With the most strenuous part of the training season behind them the University rowers will devote the next few days largely to polishing off their form and to bringing themselves to the pink of condition physically for their battle with the Blue next Friday...
...Conn., June 12--After putting his two crews through a time trial yesterday, Coach E. J. Brown '96 gave his men an easy workout here this afternoon. In the morning both of the eights were put through a light practice with excellent weather conditions. The Thames was quiet and a slight following breeze aided the Crimson sweepswingers...
...worth of merchandise. Mr. Kresge, however, has not forgotten boyhood days on a Pennsylvania farm when he rose at 4:30 a. m. and worked till dark. His clothing is still inexpensive, and he will search long for a lost golf ball. He is a solid, round, quiet man except when he is aroused against the Big Demon Rum or the Little Devil Tobacco or one of the many other worldly evils in combatting which the Kresge fortune has been freely expended...