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Word: quiets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Venizelos, quiet and busy, made no promises...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: Venizelos, Dengue | 9/3/1928 | See Source »

...just received a letter which purports to throw some light on Belgrad's murder of Stefan Radic and his comrades. ... All eyewitnesses agree that S. Radic was very quiet that day and has not called "pigs!" the Government Deputies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 27, 1928 | 8/27/1928 | See Source »

Thus ended the tragedy of the F14, but a courageous epilogue was enacted off Santander, Spain, last week by King Alfonso XIII, Queen Victoria Eugenie and their second son, the Infante Don Jaime. These royal persons, having read the final newspaper accounts of asphyxiation aboard the F14, proceeded to quiet their nerves by entering the Spanish super-submarine 51, which promptly dived beneath Atlantic billows for a short, serene voyage, a safe return...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Twin Disasters | 8/20/1928 | See Source »

Like another newspaper chain owner, famed Frank Ernest Gannett, Publisher Block was trained in the quiet city of Elmira, in the "southern tier" of New York State. He went to Public School No. 1, and in his summer vacations he did odd jobs, ran errands for the Sunday Telegram...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Friend Block | 8/13/1928 | See Source »

...heavy Gothic doors of the cloister trembled, slowly closed, were locked. Inside remained 15 quiet women dressed in white robes, wearing black hoods and capes, carrying rosaries, like strings of beads, with a pendant crucifix. They were nuns of the Dominican Sisterhood, located at Corpus Christi Monastery in Menlo Park, California. They had pledged themselves to the perpetual adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, to obedience, poverty and chastity. Never may they leave the cloister (except because of fire, leprosy, contagious maladies, or analogous circumstances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Obedience, Poverty, Chastity | 8/13/1928 | See Source »

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