Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...looped almost directly beneath him as he lay at the rim of the valley and gazed a dizzy thousand feet down a sheer granite cliff. This river was also slow and gently, meandering through meadows which were solid yellow from their cloaks of mountain daisies. But it was the quiet of a river which is battered and exhausted from the reckless rush through a steep gorge where it has been cut to snowy foam against the chaotic jumble of jagged boulders, where it has hurtled over precipices--not in smooth little aprons but in balls of white water which shoot...
...Stade opened the scoring in the fourth chukker, and Gaylord Drilling, astride the famous "Be Quiet," brought the Crimson total to six. Johnson registered the lone Yale tally in this period...
...that the State has ponderously stepped in, decided upon and conducted an election among the workers, Harvard may have a little peace and quiet. The tense is conditional because the State is still unconvinced that Harvard has not been guilty of unfair labor practices and that the election was legal...
Since 1933 some scientists have left Germany, others have stayed there and kept quiet, and still others have chimed in with the Nazi idea that German science should be distinct from the brands of science in evidence elsewhere. A most outspoken and articulate defender of Nazi scientific ideology is crusty old Professor Johannes Stark, head of the German Bureau of Standards, an able physicist who won a Nobel Prize in 1919 for his discovery of the "Stark effect" (splitting of spectrum lines when a glowing gas is subjected to a strong electrical field), and his studies of "canal rays" (beams...
...side of a hill in the south-western part of this region lies a settlement of twelve small houses dominated by a large building. The country is usually quiet on warm Spring evenings, but now an atmosphere of gayety pervades the place. Girls wearing beautiful dresses and boys trailing them are running in the direction of the parent building where a dance is progressing...