Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...condition of quiet but actual anarchy which has existed in four eastern counties of his State since 1931 last week engaged for the first time the active attention of Pennsylvania's Governor since 1935, rich George H. Earle. In khaki overalls and a head-lamped miner's cap, Governor Earle inspected a few of the thousands of bootleg holes and abandoned mines from which 20,000 men and boys are openly stealing some $32,000,000 worth of anthracite coal per year from company-owned lands. In Pottsville, Mahanoy City and Shamokin he conferred with citizens...
Neither new King George VI nor any member of the Royal Family sat with Prince Edward during the abdication broadcast from Windsor Castle (see p. 15). His Majesty had become King and Emperor eight hours previously, and immediately dropped into a quiet routine of receiving British home & Dominion statesmen at his home, No. 145 Piccadilly. As Duke of York he aroused only the slightest public interest, but British aristocrats said with particular satisfaction of the Duchess of York, "She is one of us," and a popular knowledge that the late King George V was most fond of their little daughter...
...steward on the Britannic: "In the pubs at Southampton they say 'he's a bloody fool. If he'd kept quiet, he could have had her on the side. But trying to put this over-it's too thick...
...contrast to the battle scone, a quiet note is expressed at the right by the sleeper awakening. He represents the regenerated race of man. "The World's New Age hath dawned. . . . Earth rises a second time, from the deep sea; it rises clad with green verdure...
...creaky stairs. Down a corridor. A sharp turn to the left, and in a small door, where the most peculiar pile of wood and metal I ever saw. Large box-like things around the room; men working with copper wire at little tables. An air of order and quiet. S--informs me these are the studios of the Harvard Forest. Laughing lightly at my quizzical look, he adds that the Harvard Forest is no playground for freshmen, but woods in Petersham, Mass. For years the late Professor Fisher has directed the Forest, which makes models to illustrate the forest history...