Word: quieting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tace on the cover of TIME, I appreciated and wish to thank you for your account of the situation here. It was, as I expected it would be, fearless, honest, and to the point. I am look-ing forward to the possibility of a period of quiet and research on cancer, but you may be sure that wherever I go TIME will go along with...
...interlude, typical of at least a score, will be described. A British sentry, Private Hopkins, was standing rigid and immobile at his post of duty, when a Pathan mob suddenly appeared, whooping in full cry after a Hindu. To have interfered would have been suicide. Private Hopkins stood as quiet as a lamp post. Before his eyes the Hindu was caught, pinioned, kicked, slashed horribly, and finally disemboweled. This fiendish atrocity was too much for a Soldier of the King to bear. Private Hopkins, according to English correspondents, fainted...
When Curtis Dwight was graduated from the U. S. Naval Academy, Ray Lyman was still playing Indian in short pants. But Ray Lyman was not so young that he did not know Curtis Dwight had won the Academy championship, and a handsome tambourine, for high-kicking. Being a quiet boy, Ray Lyman did his high-kicking, if any, secretly...
Within, all is quiet, all is holy. Here many a bishop in splendid robes has walked down the longest Gothic nave in the world.* Here altar boys, long since dead, have bobbed in genuflections as they hurriedly passed the altar to bring a priest a garment or a book. Here for 800 years God has been worshipped in high and solemn services...
...leave them cool and quiet...