Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Lunches were served in boxes after the train left Worcester. The new men had an air about them of quiet enjoyment; they seemed to feel that they were just entering the easiest task of a lifetime. The old men realized that they had a hard time before them and many of them slept most of the day. The Wah Hoos elected officers for one year and then the car was fairly quiet. At New York the clubs weat right to the Fifth Avenue Hotel. J. Wendell '91 met the fellows there and made them feel at home After the Concert...
...number of amusing anecdotes and many extracts from his letters. One anecdote characteristic of the man is as follows: "Once he was found in the library of a Boston friend, silent and sad, in a mood not usual to him Seeking to cheer him, his hostess ventured some quiet words reminding him of the deep personal affection in which he was held the wide world over. His morning mail lay beside him. She pointed to the pile of grateful and adoring letters. 'Ahyes,' he said, 'but they say Tennyson has written a perfect poem." Millet's early life - his parents...
...literary production, it has not much merit. There is little method and the art is rough. It paints vividly any grotesque character, but fails at the quiet or gentle. It has no cohereucr, and no consummation, - like many pictures arranged by mere chance...
...Partial opening of Fair equally undesirable. - (a) Same reasons apply as against complete opening. - (b) Intended for finance not for the workingmen: Advance, Nov. 17, 1892. - (c) The quiet Sabbath scheme Utopian and impracticable: Our Day, IX, 698 - (d) Religious services more conveniently held in the city free of charge: Our Day, IX, 698 - (e) Entering wedge to complete Sunday opening...
Influence, though in a way opposed to power in character, often works along similar lines; but its method of work is very different. Influence works quietly, unassumingly and in unexpected places. It is more nearly related to the quality of love than power. Of the two, however, it is the stronger. The church has really very limited power but its influence is tremendous. It does not need power, for its work is done in a very quiet way in the homes of the people...