Word: quieting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This habit or custom is very impressive, because it always occurs when perfect quiet otherwise prevails. The one able to blow the loudest blast is always rewarded by grateful smiles and looks of indulgence from his countrymen...
With the approach of these forces, a hush fell over Haiti and quiet was temporarily restored. But from Congress came a menacing rumble as critics of U. S. policy in the Caribbean gathered for a new attack...
After spending a quiet Juma, your Turkish official comes down to the foreign office bright and early Jumartesi, only to find that London, Paris and New York are in no mood to answer his cables because they are knocking off for Saturday afternoon. The next day, Pazar, third day of the Turkish week, is simply hopeless for the poor official, because throughout Christendom it is Sunday...
...terminal, he hired two Norwegian tramp steamers and began to import to himself via Bush Terminal tons and tons of bananas from Jamaica. Today twelve steamers dock at the Bush Terminal on an average day, and one-fifth of the freight handled in New York passes through it. With quiet pride Mr. Bush says of his terminal : "I have built, and it is my creation...
Metropolitan Hysteria. A low-flying plane crashed on a building in crowded Manhattan last fortnight. The police, somewhat hysterical, threatened to require flyers to keep at least 7,000 ft. above the ground. Department of Commerce regulations stipulate 1,000 ft. as minimum over congested areas. To quiet metropolitan hysteria two planes of the Gates Flying Service last week cut off their motors at 3,000 ft. over the centre of the island and glided, with moderate wind to help them, to safe, dead stick landings at New York's outskirts. An ordinary commercial plane has an average gliding ratio...