Word: quieting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Great Britain and France won War II's biggest victory last week, but the scene of success was neither at the front nor on the sea nor in the air, but rather in quiet, faraway Ankara, capital of Turkey, 1,600 miles from the guns of the Western Front. There, 25 years almost to the day after Sultanate Turkey had entered World War I on the side of Germany and Austria-Hungary, a new Turkey, now republican in form, signed a treaty with Britain and France which made the onetime enemies allies-on condition...
Most yeomanly English novelist since Galsworthy, Sir Hugh Walpole was finishing a long Elizabethan adventure story "to keep myself quiet." He was also doing semi-official propaganda work. Said he: "Because people realize the futility of war much more fully than in 1918, the result may be some new sort of realistic idealism...
With the experiences back of him of going through the sinking of the Panay and witnessing over two hundred air raids while he was war correspondent for the United Press in two wars, Weldon James has settled down this year to the relatively quiet role of a Nieman Fellow in the University...
Over all the front from Luxembourg to Switzerland the German forces were ominously quiet. During the fore part of the week Allied soldiers were busy with endless patrolling, laid a few ambushes and made a few raids to get prisoners for questioning by their intelligence officers. But toward week's end came sounds from the German line that Allied officers liked less than the boom of German guns...
...house the 5,500 insane patients and 760 employes of Manteno State Hospital. Finished in 1937, this dreary-neat plant boasts many a modern improvement, including special wells, tapping a limestone water-table 17 feet underground, which supply the hospital with water. Life at Manteno rolled along with the quiet, machinelike monotony common to State institutions until one day last August, when a half-dozen patients complained of diarrhea...