Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...economic side Her Majesty's Government have just moved far toward making peace in the cut-throat Far East freight war between Dutch and Japanese shipping companies. By quiet, patient insistence Premier Colijn has forced both Japanese and Dutch shipmen to agree upon preliminary peace terms and these will now be used by diplomats of Tokyo and The Hague in an effort to make a binding economic treaty between the Empire of Hirohito and that of Wilhelmina...
...Literature as Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Hickling Prescott, George Bancroft. At their heels came Oliver Wendell Holmes (Class of 1829), Henry David Thoreau and Richard Henry Dana (Class of 1837). The unbridgeable, bloody chasm between the Northern and Southern traditions was nowhere more evident than in the quiet incredulity with which Henry Adams regarded the son of Robert Edward Lee who was his classmate in the '50s. And the 19th Century was on its last legs in more than a chronological sense when Alice Lee stole up into the gallery of the old gymnasium because her fiance, Theodore Roosevelt...
...spirit which had created and improved that sacred patrimony. They read, they praised, they compiled, but their languid souls seemed alike incapable of thought and action. ... A succession of patient disciples became in their turn the dogmatic teachers of the next servile generation." "That," says James Bryant Conant with quiet firmness, "must not be allowed to happen at Harvard...
...offices have parted. Miss Spidell, for the Houses, has a new little cubbyhole tucked away in the Dean's office upstairs. Into her old quarters has moved Miss Butcher, quiet custodian of personnel records, while the ever-expanding Employment Agency crowds across the hall on the ground floor into her former room...
This was in many respects advantageous. For in the quiet of an inclosed auditorium the distinguished speakers of the afternoon were enabled to do full justice to a burst of inspiring addresses befitting the wind up of such a three-day calendar of ceremonies...