Word: quieting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...means as efficient as that provided by your professional waitresses at Harvard. Social equality and unobtrusive service do not go hand in hand with many persons. However, if it is understood that there are plenty of people waiting for, and needing jobs, and that retention of jobs depends on quiet efficiency, this defect could, in my opinion, be remedied. ---The Amherst Student...
...first place, it has been customary to dispose of student waiting as "sloppy." The whole question of efficiency, however, is one which is chiefly to be determined by the management. By improving the management, and making it clear that the retention of the job depended upon the quiet efficiency with which it was executed, it should not be difficult to train students to serve as efficiently as the present waitresses. In the second place, it is objected that the necessity of granting students leave to fulfill their academic engagements would lead to irregularity in the service. Although provision for this...
...With his quiet ways and trenchant phrases he made disciples of a multitude of his students and farmers whom he advised to pay off their mortgages in the days when that was still possible...
...independence and the rank of Kingdom under her first Bratianu Premier, famed Ion (John) the Great in 1881. His son, also Ion and also great, saw the Rumanian House of Hohenzollern safely through the War, which brought the nation huge new territories. He induced flamboyant Queen Marie's quiet husband (whose name, already forgotten, was Ferdinand) to exact the abdication of Crown Prince Carol. When King Ferdinand died and Carol's son Mihai became Rumania's "Boy King" (TIME, Aug. 1, 1927), Rumanians said "It is now Ion who reigns and rules," but later that same year...
...battle is on. Smart politician that he is, Roosevelt could not keep the inflation issue from coming to the front. Since his inauguration it has hung ominously in the background. The inflationists have never been very quiet, and within recent weeks their meagre squeal has grown into a major howl. But only in the last week have any considerable "sound money" jitters become noticeable. First Barney Baruch, adviser extraordinary to the New Deal, pronounces his opposition, and then comes the electric shock of Professor Sprague's desertion and condemnation of the Administration. Now the Federal Reserve Advisory Council intones...