Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unprincipled even for the Gallic" besides a quiet slander is an airy generalisation. Here it is necessary to differenciate: the Front Commun has always been pro-League, while the Front National has consistently been anti-League or at least very cold to it and the Front Commun represents over half the electoral body. Please do not speak of "La Belle France" as being on such good terms with Mr. Laval; there is no such a thing as "realistic France", there are so-called realistic Frenchmen and others that are not. In fact I look forward to a decided success...
...late Jay G. Woodworth, professor of Geology, the station was housed for twenty-five years of continuous recording in the basement of the Museum. When it began to record small shocks every time classes met, the department decided to move it to the peace and quiet of Oak Ridge, near the Astronomical Observatory. Recordings were discontinued in the Museum in 1933, and are now carried on entirely at Oak Ridge. A new vertical machine has recently been added to the four horizontal ones brought from the old station...
Hence one day Secretary Morgenthau went to Capitol Hill to answer questions. Mr. Morgenthau was squirming in quiet discomfort...
Little Rudyard, "The Beetle," was sent to be educated at Westward Ho! (a quiet English town). In Stalky & Co he has chronicled his teen-age mischief there. Major General Lionel Charles Dunsterville is today so proud of having been the original "Stalky" that he has called his two books of memoirs Stalky's Reminiscences and Stalky Settles Down...
...such is the picture Italy has to contemplate. Even a few weeks hence we may see faces replaced in Rome, an ambiguous League policy redirected and an even more paradoxical neutrality policy in the United States overturned. In itself, the lull in African warfare means less than nothing. The quiet is a surface calm. Mussolini's barometer is dropping fast. By the same token, the monarchial barometer is rising...