Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President's deliberate ambiguity about his money plans did not encourage supersensitive businessmen, whose apprehensions he had spent the last three weeks trying to assuage through quiet missionary work among bigwig White House visitors. That very day a White House guest had been Morgan Partner Russell Cornell Leffingwell, a potent Democrat and Wartime Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. Twenty-four hours later, Business was given something to get really jittery about...
More and greater results will be obtained by these men. But still only a handful of Harvard students will hear or see them. They work in quiet. By TIME...
...opening of its orchestra season, Philadelphia had its own, its very own Leopold Stokowski. Slender and elegant as ever, he was bursting with energy. He had spent a quiet summer studying Persian music in the British Museum. But like any shrewd showman he first gave his subscribers just what they wanted: his own arrangement of Bach, a Beethoven symphony, a magnificent high-powered reading of Death and Transfiguration. Only flaw was the Prelude to Hans Pfitzner's long-winded Palestrina. But of that no one took much notice...
...Millikan had reserved his remarks for an appropriate occasion, the International Conference on Physics. The roster of those assembled was studded with names famed the world over. Present and greeted with stormy applause were quiet, brilliant Jean Frédéric Joliot and Irene Curie-Joliot, son-in-law and daughter of the late Marie Sklodowska Curie. A vast and totally unforeseen field of research was opened last year when the Curie-Joliots discovered the phenomenon of artificial radioactivity. The young couple obtained a continued emission of positrons from boron, magnesium and aluminum by bombarding those elements with alpha...
...Octagon soaps, tooth paste, shaving cream and whatnot. But profits dropped from $8,900,000 to a slight deficit in 1932. That was the signal for the return of the Colgates. S. (for Samuel; Bayard Colgate, 36, was elected president, and a management representing stock control stepped in. A quiet, clear-headed great-grandson of the founder, President Colgate has been house-cleaning ever since?with the result that in the first six months of the year C. P. P. made $2,400,000 against $765,000 in the 1933 half...