Word: quietly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chewing Senator Vic Donahey, foregathered in the Senate's cavernous marble caucus room. Senator Donahey called Arthur Morgan to present his complaints first. The gaunt, eagle-faced old hydraulic engineer carried to the stand a fat bale of mimeographed matter. As he read, his big audience became successively quiet, bored, restless. For in low, mumbling tones he continued reading, uninterrupted, for five and three-quarter hours...
Colleagues v. Morgan. First to reply to Arthur Morgan next day was quiet little Harcourt Morgan. He deplored the fact that, whereas Dr. Arthur's original charges "have been generally understood ... to be charges of personal financial dishonesty and corruption," only now, three months later, were they known not to be charges of graft. "During these many weeks a heavy cloud has rested on Mr. Lilienthal and myself, as well as the entire staff of TVA. . . . The most painful experience that I have suffered in nearly 40 years of connection with public undertakings...
...course, James J. Hines, a bulky, taciturn man of 61 who started life as a blacksmith and now lives in quiet, sporting affluence, with a country cottage at Long Beach and a town apartment near the northwest corner of Central Park, appeared with his lawyer at the D. A.'s office to submit to arrest. It was the crowning sensation of a three-year campaign to roust racketeers out of Manhattan. It was also the biggest act yet in the career of Thomas Edmund Dewey, now 36, who three years ago, when Governor Lehman appointed him special rackets prosecutor...
...that the battle for control of the strategic Lunghai Railway was not yet over, that the recent capture of Suchow had not yet caused the collapse of China's resistance on the central front. Extensively along the railway the Japanese attacked, and the war began spreading to hitherto quiet parts of China. Reports placed...
...time on alchemy, history, theology and mysticism. He edited geographical works, made telescopes and ear trumpets, dissected animal organs and studied cider-making. Newton was not stimulated by passing winds of criticism and discussion. In fact they annoyed him so much, by taking up his time and disturbing his quiet, that he often took refuge from the world by keeping his work to himself...