Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rather quiet individual at times," reads a typical recommendation, "but we feel that through contact with other men in the same class he will gain more self-confidence. . .ultimately he may end up in charge of the entire manufacturing end of the business...
...addition to public munificence, Colonel Baker carries on quiet good works; e.g., when he hears of deserving citizens whose taxes are in arrears he wipes out their delinquency. Between times, the fragile (135 Ibs.) philanthropist holds court in the coffee shop of the Baker Hotel, where he has lived since his wife died in 1939. Fellow townsmen are allowed to stop and chat if a hovering nurse nods to them, are offered Robert Burns Panatelas at audience's end. The cigars must be smoked immediately; E. J. Baker likes his gifts to be used...
Noodle shops throve on the celebration. Bunting and streamers festooned Taipei. And to avoid the well-wishing crush, Nationalist China's-Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek went off to his Sun Moon Lake retreat, passed a quiet 72nd birthday...
...machine that is causing all the excitement among the giants is put out by the pygmy-sized (104 employees) Elox Corp. of Royal Oak, Mich. It will bring, said a Ford tool expert, not only a change in carmaking but a "quiet revolution in the metal workings trades." Elox (for "electrical oxidation") machines not only make the machining of metal faster and cheaper, but they enable U.S. industry to do jobs it has never done before. Said Jerry Cornwell, purchasing agent for Avco's Lycoming Division, a prime missile contractor: "We're doing things that just couldn...
Angelo carried the same sobriety into his work at school; he was only eleven when he decided to be a priest, and though the expense meant a sacrifice for his parents, Angelo went to study at the seminary in Bergamo, the quiet, medieval "town of 100 churches." He won a scholarship to the Pontifical Seminary in Rome, was ordained at 25, and said his first Mass in St. Peter's Basilica...