Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...chances" were taken. For instance, a patient, under ordinary circumstances, with a dislocated semilunar cartilage, would be perfectly contented to lead a more or less quiet life for a considerable length of time. The football player, however, as soon as the acute symptoms have disappeared, is quite unwilling to be prevented from playing. In no case was any sedative drug used in order to deaden the pain of an injury so as to allow a player to take part in a game before recovery was complete...
...This was quiet world spoken in a noisy time, said Dr. Van Dyke, for Egypt and Assyria were striving for supremacy and Israel was tossed between the opposing factions. There was also religious unrest, and men were tossed back and forth like shuttle cocks between superstition and atheism. In the midst of this confusion, the prophet, Isaiah, tells the people not to worry about political and social troubles, but to have faith and confidence in God. This faith lifts men up from the tumult and confusion of the world about them...
There is need of this gospel of peace and quiet in this age of haste where there are so many changes and disturbances. At the present time, we are giving ourselves up too much to haste and excitement. The battle of life is to be won by steadiness are quiet work. Belief in Christ will save us from the made race for riches and worldly pleasures in which so many lives are lost. It will also deliver us from the crazy desires for worldliness, the craving to be up with the crowd. We must remember it is much better...
...Yale university and freshman crews spent a quiet day yesterday after their hard work of the last few days. In the morning the men went down the river in the launch to church at New London. In the afternoon they took a short walk. The men are all in fine condition...
...link between mediaeval and modern literature is Petrarch. Descended from Florentine ancestry, he was born in 1304. He spent his youth in exile, and was educated at the University of Bologna. His first great achievement was the discovery of Cicero's "Pro Archia" in 1333. He spent a quiet life at Vaucluse and Arqua, where he died in 1374. Petrarch saturated his life with a careful study of the classics, to which he was early attracted by their perfection of form. His efforts to bring about a revival of Latin literature paved the way for the Italian Renaissance...