Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...untold occasions Mr. Apted has given students in difficulty sound advice and cooperative help before their cases reached higher authorities. Often he has managed to make quiet disposition of a case so that it never reached University Hall and disciplinary action. Lastly, it is impossible to overlook the observation that even the innocent and now deified Mr. George was perhaps so intoxicated that Mr. Apted could not be blamed for believing him capable of the outrage to the janitor...
Toscanini's men know the call well, respect the quiet, firm answers. In case of emergency, dependable Hans Lange is prepared to conduct every program the Philharmonic gives. He has definite turns during each season when he wields the baton at concerts, wins critical praise for his richly varied programs...
...last week were lightly scored but they were so vital and direct, so tender, so craftily sure that the audience behaved as if it had just heard the percussive Bolero or driving Pacific 231. The final Fantasia, an ingenious weaving around a single note, had to be repeated. Then quiet Hans Lange was thanked time & again for reviving such long-neglected music...
Scopolamine is a hypnotic drug made from henbane. As scopolamine hydrobromide solution it is widely used for inducing twilight sleep at childbirth, for quieting maniacs, drug addicts, alcoholics. Some years ago the late Dr. Robert Ernest House of Ferris, Tex. discovered, on administering scopolamine during an obstetrical case, that his patient was babbling things which she would not ordinarily have told. It seemed that the drug, by a selective action on the brain centres, inhibited a person's ability to withhold information from a questioner. In addition it was found that scopolamine, like actual hypnosis, might dredge up forgotten...
...Hahn's, Associated Dry Goods. He wrote The Crisis and Some Ways Out (1931), other economic books and articles. William J. Hammerslough is head of the firm's investment advisory service. Monroe Gutman is the statistician and analyzer of corporate statements. To this group of conservative, capable, quiet bankers in 1934 went John Daniel Hertz, Chicagoan who collects race horses rather than Madonnas, who is a businessman, not a banker, who has been unsuccessful in business only in his two attempts to retire from it. Born in Austria, arriving in the U. S. at 4, he grew...