Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Politics is a fluid science and so is bookkeeping. Mixed together in unknown quantities the two will generate various reactions, sometimes quiet and invisible, sometimes violently explosive. The final solution usually defies exact analysis...
...first stage" of the Royal case was described as "gradual in its onset . . . a general infection . . . little or no cough ... a sense of illness-yet a wish, born of quiet courage and the habit of duty, to make light of the illness and hold on to work, thus adding to the wear and tear of the fever...
Soon despatches called the situation "quiet," said that Dr. Wang, after nervously threatening to resign, was continuing negotiations with the Powers as Foreign Minister...
Eugene O'Neill, playwright, disappeared last week. He was heard of in Shanghai, where he was suffering and recovering from a slight nervous breakdown and bronchitis. Before he disappeared, he wrote a letter to his physician, as follows: "I came to China seeking peace and quiet and hoping that here at least people would mind their business and allow me to mind mine. But I have found more snoops and gossips per square inch than in any New England town of 1,000 inhabitants. This does not apply to American newspaper correspondents who have been most decent carrying...
This Committee on Iconography has collected a large number of photographs and prints for Lawrence Hall. Among these pictures are two reproductions of old prints of Harvard one showing a group of the older buildings, the other, portraying a quiet cricket game in progress in front of Sumner's monument near Harvard Square...