Word: quieting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Elections last week were for the Netherlands' provincial councils in which Premier Colijn's coalition has had a majority strength of 58%. Hitherto Engineer Mussert, much addicted to quiet maneuvering behind the scenes, has put up no candidates, saying "The N. S. B. is a movement, not a party." Last week when votes were counted the Colijn coalition strength was still a rock-ribbed 58% majority but other Dutch parties had lost to Mussert some 8% of the vote, thus giving N. S. B. 39 seats in ten provincial chambers...
Occupied with problems and duties at home, Harvard students are inclined to ignore a field of action in which the University takes quiet but profound pride. The latest reports of the Bowles expedition in Tibet, which bid fair to replace several missing tiles in the exotic and unfamiliar mosiac of that region, show once again that the triumphs of Harvard scholarship are far from being confined to Cambridge. If present hopes are realized, the discoveries made by Mr. Bowles and his party, although taking place in remotest Asia, will throw an essential light on the perplexing problem of the origin...
From a utilitarian standpoint alone this policy is wise, since the University achieves immeasurable prestige from these quiet triumphs. A discovery such as that made recently by Professor Lake's expedition in the Sinai Peninsula, when the tomb of the Egyptian goddess Hathor was unearthed, brings to an institution of learning the credit to which its efforts entitle it. Present day science has reached the stage where much of the most vital work is done far from the cloistered museums and libraries. Like bread cast upon the waters, the support given Harvard to its globetrotting expeditions is repaying the University...
...brothers under the skin? Are we not all sharers of the common heritage of humanity, family devotion? Let us be broad minded about this thing. Let us look at the situation through the eyes of the loving mother. Picture the affection lavished in the quiet of the home with no one there but mother, father, Dr. Dafee, three nurses, the quintuplets, and numerous brothers and sisters. Is the picture not touching enough to bring out the best in the heart of any man, woman, or child...
What with Venizelos in exile, and the rebels totally brought to bay, things were beginning to quiet down in Athens. Yet at high noon, yesterday, the men were aroused from their customary places in the cafes by a penetrating shriek, "Long live Venizelos, and the revolution." Fearing a new uprising, they rushed out en masse to locate the culprit, only to find that the object of their anxiety was no more than a trained parrot. Rebel sympathizers now fear for the life of the parrot...