Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three Japanese soldiers struck by fragments and stumble haltingly," said Publisher George Bruce of the Shanghai Evening Post & Mercury. "There was a burst of blue-black smoke. The parade broke for a distance of 100 yards. For a moment everything was quiet. Then the Japanese soldiers began scattering to both sides of the street. The exact time...
...quiet dinner at pro-French Mr. Eden's house in Mayfair, and a luncheon with King George and Queen Elizabeth at which Mr. Eden was not present but Mr. Chamberlain was, gave M. Chautemps and M. Delbos further opportunities to make friends. On their departure for Paris, the House of Commons was told by the Prime Minister that "a preliminary examination was made of the colonial question in all its aspects. It was recognized that this question was not one that could be considered in isolation, and moreover would involve a number of other countries...
...many cigar stores. Dr. Thorndike's explanation is that in the good town people practice small vices instead of big ones. "When tobacco was discovered, people who had been flogging slaves and watching bear fights began to get enjoyment instead from a quiet smoke." But many drug stores are a bad sign. Dr. Thorndike thinks this is true because an inferior town buys many patent medicines and cosmetics...
...State Agricultural College, both units of the State's System of Higher Education, is the thorn that makes the president's seat uncomfortable at University of Oregon. Two years ago Dr. Frederick Maurice Hunter was brought from Denver as Oregon's Chancellor of Higher Education to quiet a raging political dogfight. But the University still feels itself the underdog. It lacks a full-fledged science department and other requisites of a self-respecting university...
...loving music more than show but nonetheless selects the first night of the opera to hear it. The restless din of Society nearly swamped moments of the final act. It was too much for one outraged Teuton who drooped among the lower classes behind the standees' rail. "Quiet please!" he wailed over the surging strains of Artur Bodanzky's orchestra and the equally surging conversational hum. "Der iss an opera going on. It iss a good opera; you might like...