Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these exhibitions of economy lost their significance when the public learned last week about a quiet little speech made by Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau to an Appropriations subcommittee in secret session last month. Testifying on the Treasury-Post Office supply bill, Mr. Morgenthau calmly observed that a public debt of $50,000,000,000 was in certain prospect for the U. S., and would by no means strain the nation's financial structure. Shocked protests answered Mr. Morgenthau. But realists on Capitol Hill knew that he was only putting it mildly. They knew that...
Like many of St. Louis' facultymen and students, quiet, scholarly Dr. Moyer Springer Fleisher, ousted head of the University Medical School's bacteriology department, is neither a Jesuit nor a Roman Catholic. Two and a half years ago he became a sponsor of the Medical Bureau to Aid Spanish Democracy. St. Louis' Jesuit trustees were annoyed. When, year and half ago, the committee sponsored a pro-Loyalist speech in St. Louis by an allegedly unfrocked Irish priest, Michael O'Flanagan, St. Louis' Catholic Club and Archbishop John J. Glennon were more than annoyed; they demanded...
...Quiet by nature, unobtrusive by preference, Robert Fechner had 'hardly taken hold at CCC before he got into a first-class stink. The Affair of the Toilet Kits in June 1933 concerned a persuasive salesman who got Louis Howe to get Robert Fechner to pay an outrageous price for 200,000 handybags. Although Franklin Roosevelt himself had casually endorsed the salesman, loyal Mr. Fechner took the blows from Congress. That body in 1937 repaid him by cutting his $12,000 salary to $10,000. (Mrs. Norton's bill would restore...
...donned his work clothes, walked into his laboratory to perform a physical experiment. With a stream of neutrons (obtainable by subjecting a pinch of beryllium to the emanations of the radioactive gas radon) he bombarded a bit of uranium. While the routine little experiment proceeded all was peace and quiet in the laboratory. There was no crash of thunder, no flash of cataclysmic lightning...
Everybody knows that it is very quiet after it snows. But last week in Nature, two inquisitive Britons from the National Physical Laboratory at Teddington told exactly how efficient a sound absorber snow is. They carried a carpet of newly fallen snow, four inches deep, into their laboratory, found it absorbed 90% and more of vibrations in the middle and high frequency ranges, far more than heavy velvet draperies...