Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...quiet afternoon last week the world "liar" echoed through the Senate chamber; almost simultaneously it was heard along with profanity in the lobby of the House. Hostilities ensued...
...could he more prejudicial to the fortunes of the accused students, than any demonstration whatsoever among undergraduate spectators at the Hearing. The cases are in wholly capably hands, which will function more efficiently without the aid of a gallery. The latter's highest usefulness under the circumstances it the quiet attendance on classes...
...years red-blooded U. S. college athletes have thrilled to the classic vaunt: "I'd die for dear old Rutgers." All that was golden about the glorious '90s is bound up in those few quiet words. According to legend, they were uttered after he had broken his leg in the Princeton game by Philip M. Brett, Rutgers football captain in 1891, now a Manhattan attorney. But last week the Rutgers Alumni Monthly robbed Mr. Brett of his glory. Legend was wrong, said the Monthly, in a few particulars. Mr. Brett did not break his leg. Mr. Brett said...
...Another quiet statement and the News raised Gambler Bonfils to five gallons...
Meantime Lincoln Memorial University, near the junction of Tennessee, Kentucky and Virginia, an institution founded in 1897 without any "trumpet blast" but with a quiet, non-sectarian religious purpose and with the idea of carrying to four and one half million Appalachian mountaineers some of the enlightenment for which Abraham Lincoln, wilderness boy, so hankered-Lincoln Memorial University issued a dignified statement to the public that it needed a million dollars to go on with its work. To describe the handicaps it was working under with inadequate buildings and endowment, it quoted a most Lincolnian remark addressed...