Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...every week; he is frequently called to speak and to moderate discussions at the Law School Forum and similar events. There is a special art, Capp says, in handling a Harvard audience. It must be treated with "affectionate contempt." A Harvard audience has to be abused, in order to quiet it down," he adds...
...Congress this week went Interior Secretary Fred Seaton's plan to help depressed U.S. mining industries and also to quiet opposition to extending the reciprocal trade agreements. Under Seaton's five-year plan, which would cost an estimated $161 million the first year, the Government would pay the miners of copper, lead, zinc, tungsten and fluorspar the difference between the market price and a set "stabilization" price. To Canada and the Latin American countries that export metals to the U.S., the Seaton plan is a welcome alternative to the tariff increases they face. The increases, plus cutbacks...
...grey on the third desperate day of battle near Gettysburg, charging into history under Major General George Pickett. Their objective was the stone wall in the center of the Union lines, where Staff Lieut. Haskell and the veterans of the II Corps stood waiting, watching. It was strangely quiet: "The click of the locks as each man raised the hammer to feel with his fingers that the cap was on the nipple; the sharp jar as a musket touched a stone upon the wall when thrust in aiming over it; and the clicking of the iron axles as the guns...
...pass this information on in the hope that it may be of value, financial and spiritual, to your readers after they leave their quiet halls for the din and noise of life. Preston W. Smith, Jr., Cambridge Acoustical Associates...
...attempted riot among freshmen fell victim to extensive advance planning by University Police and the Dean's office. No freshmen lost their bursar's cards in the quiet "riot," despite elaborate plans, which included a mimeographed schedule for the melee...