Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another week passed, and no square mile changed hands in Spain last week but signs were not lacking that the six-weeks' stalemate would not last much longer. On Thanksgiving eve, Madrid, quiet for over a month, received its heaviest shelling since October 16. Some 300 buildings were damaged, scores of civilians were killed. It happened to be the first occasion that Counselor of U. S. Embassy Walter Thurston had visited Madrid in over a year. Unscathed, he presided at a Thanksgiving dinner (from cans) for the remnants of Madrid's U. S. colony: five newspaper correspondents...
...William Seifriz of the University of Pennsylvania lives a quiet bachelor's life in Chester Springs, collects old Italian bronze and French porcelain, permits no telephone in his house. At his ground-floor laboratory in Philadelphia he good-humoredly allows an impertinent squirrel to come in by the window, make off with chocolate bars and filter paper. Squirrels, however, are not Dr. Seifriz' favorite pets. On a far greater favorite of his he last week performed an experiment with extraordinary results...
Contrast of the "quiet" dormitories of Harvard with the "madhouses" at Dartmouth is the chief point of difference between the two schools, in the opinion of Dean Chamberlain, assistant dean of freshmen at Hanover...
...victorious cackling of the two hens which are harbored in the washroom of its 13 Holyoke Street headquarters. Francis R. Hart, Jr. '27, author and director of "Straight Scotch," called for silence but got no results. Stage manager Kenneth T. Bird '38 reprimanded the various boards to keep quiet, but was met only with surprised and painful looks...
...Country and My People Lin Yutang offered a shrewd and engaging interpretation of modern China which U. S. readers liked almost as well as chop suey. Passing suggestions in that book hinted that what the U. S. needs, in order to quiet its nerves, is a good shot of Chinese philosophy. In The Importance of Living Author Yutang sets down what he thinks are the most useful ingredients for a Chi-nese-American way of life. Banning Buddhism because "it is too sad," he likes the Taoist-Confucianist view better, but cheerfully admits that he has taken many...