Word: quieting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...eight hours long, was delivered on two successive days by Premier & Finance Minister Poincare. When he sat down virtually all correspondents cabled that the union of his Cabinet for election purposes is now monolithic. Was this news? Characteristically, the U. S. press played down or omitted a story of quiet, constructive achievement, so lacking in the ever welcome promise that one more luckless European premier is about to fall...
...after the final curtain of his latest play, "Straight Thru the Door", and was sitting in his dressing room attired in the tuxedo coat and white trousers in which he appeared in his last scene. It really am a rather dry proposition for an interview," he remarked in his quiet way to the scribe who was waiting for him, "but I can at least tell you where I got the basis for my play...
...salutary influence on the minds of a reading public, this quiet and traditionally Texan shooting may indeed be praised. But in its practice, details must develop that are judicially questionable. A bandit, hardly willing to identify himself as a justifiable target, must be shot, first and approached afterwards. Again, he must be shot, for the safety of his persecutor, at a reasonable distance. Sent from the hand of an excitable person evisioning rewards, the bullet is more than likely to pass through several estimable citizens before it reaches some suspect later found both innocent and dead. The weapons of prohibition...
...repository of important facts of which the ordinary student is as yet completely ignorant. Both give him a feeling of superiority, none the less gratifying because realized only by himself. There is no glory, no applause--no one is less noticed as he hurries through the streets than the quiet, inconspicuous candidate--it is merely the satisfaction of feeling that he alone of so many hundreds has his finger on the pulse of University affairs, that where the University arises in the morning to glance over the day's news it is his handiwork that it unknowingly scans...
...rather more than "preparing" for the tests to come. The theory is, of course, that a serious student will do much better work and get better results if he is put on his own responsibility--a theory to which we heartily subscribe. It is also likely that such a quiet period will give the less serious student his first real acquaintance with scholarship and a taste for study that he does not get when under the forcing system of daily required work. At Harvard they do not yet know how this will result. The Harvard Bulletin is satisfied, however, that...