Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Quiet San Diego...
Hustling Los Angeles may not resent TIME'S omission (Nov. 9) of her port at San Pedro as the scene of idle ships in the current maritime dispute. But quiet San Diego would like it known that two, not 22, vessels were tied up at her docks at the strike's outset...
Restraining his argument as he has restrained his resounding voice ever since Chief Justice Hughes asked him to quiet down during the Carter case. Chief Counsel Wood attacked the law strictly on constitutional grounds. His thesis was that, since the burden was laid solely on employers and on them equally regardless of unemployment conditions in their particular plants or industries, it violated both the due-process and equal-protection clauses of the 14th Amendment...
...more infested moments, has asked for "a supernatural network over five wires," and for "a spiritual radiophone in every home," puts forward as the central object of the movement God-control of every person's every act. God-control is acquired by the faithful as a result of frequent "quiet times" when uninterrupted meditation produces God's answer to any troublesome problem. To a certain extent this seems to be the old faith in the natural man, a reliance on the efficacy of the still, small voice of conscience...
Aside from the quiet time, the distinguishing characteristics of the Buchmanite movement consist of a use of confession, psychologically a perfectly satisfactory method of relieving the mind (and one that the Catholic Church has been availing itself of for some time), their admitted social discrimination, and an insistence on the fulfillment of the four key words of absolute honesty, absolute purity, absolute unselfishness, and absolute love. The social discrimination is justified by the statement that it is folly to have their "teams" attempt mass conversions, but that conversion of the "key people" in a community will have the same result...