Word: quieting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...surface of the Atlantic Ocean, a Harvard University expedition has succeeded in taking fossil-bearing rock in place on the cliffs of the North American continental shelf for the first time, and has discovered evidence which upsets existing ideas as to the long geologic period of stability and quiet which was supposed to have continued unbroken since the Palaeozoic age, 160,000,000 years...
...Quiet as the Dawn...
Never was a song more cruelly abused. Yet many realized that it was a rare, good tune in its smooth, nostalgic style. And it served to turn attention to quiet Ray Noble, no ordinary, illiterate, catchpenny songwriter but the well-mannered son of a well-to-do London neurologist and a nephew of T. Tertius Noble, the venerated organist of St. Thomas' Episcopal Church in Manhattan. Organist Noble has never been known to hum "Goodnight, Sweetheart." Nor has he ever met his nephew, famed now for having turned out some of the best dance records in England. But only...
...Rainbow Room customers expected to see a showman last week they were roundly disappointed when quiet Ray Noble conducted his men. His easy gestures were all from the wrist. Occasionally he tapped his foot, sometimes sat at a piano, pattered a bit. He had gathered first-rate U. S. players and, unlike many a conductor, he freely admits his debt to them. Trombonist Glen Miller is one of the best "hot men" in the U. S. And so is Bud Freeman, Noble's tenor saxophone. Only two of the musicians came from London with Noble: Bill Harty, his manager...
...consumer was creeping up. By February housewives everywhere began to complain (TIME, Feb. 25). Resentment boiled into a one-day consumers' strike in Los Angeles where 10,000 housewives boycotted their butchers, forced them to cut meat prices 5? a lb. For a time all was quiet. Last week a housewives' boycott broke out again, this time in New York City...