Word: quieting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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They have made no plans for their stay in England, but will travel through the country at their leisure. The Conants are travelling tourist-third, peace and quiet being the object of their trip. It was announced unofficially that President Conant was not expected to visit Oxford or Cambridge Universities...
...crawl out of the room. Less carefully tested but just as broad is the Yacht Club Boys' parody of a vaudeville tumbling act and their agreeable ditty, The Income Tax. There is some sketchy hoofing, a Harburg and Arlen ballad called In Your Own Quiet Way, and a tired little plot about the girl who gets the part...
...common with makers of cars, couplings, air brakes, signals and other railroad necessities, had felt the effects of the peculiar industrial dependence under which they operate. Good or bad, the railroad equipment business varies as the square of the railroad business. When U. S. railroading lapsed into a quiet period of consolidation after the War, the business of equipping railroads became not merely quiet, but definitely dull. After 1929 it almost ceased to exist...
After many small groups had met for "quiet times," some 400 Groupers and friends congregated in Newport's Casino Theatre. There they viewed the First Century Christian Fellowship cinema Bridge Builders, later enjoyed a buffet supper, beamed, chatted in the ballroom of the Casino. Practically all were oldsters. The younger set had had their shindig the night before at a "White Elephant Bal Masque" at the Newport Country Club...
...great merchandising organizations built on the agrarian economy of the U. S., undertook a major invasion of the industrialized East. Eastern headquarters were established at Philadelphia and to this new satrapy, Julius Rosenwald, Chicago's great mail order magnate, sent his own son, quiet, hardworking, philanthropic Lessing Julius Rosenwald. The great Julius died, and four years ago Son Lessing became board chairman of the firm. Even then he did not return to Chicago. Once a week or oftener he taxis thither by air to confer with Sears' President Robert E. Wood, but his home is in Philadelphia...