Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pobo Mountain front, just northeast of Teruel which has been quiet since March, Rightist troops under General Jose Varela seized the Leftist key stronghold, Escorihuela, prepared for an offensive against the Teruel-Sagunto highway. On the north Catalan front, brisk Leftist counterattacks regained several strategic villages and Barcelona restored contact with "the Leftist Lost Battalion" (43rd Division). "We prefer to fight where we are with our backs to the French frontier!" announced its commander...
Police soon called the derby to a halt, as the spectators' excitement was endangering the quiet of a New England Sunday evening...
...thought. This influence should be resisted if it attacks a man's "region of friendly ideas," or the opinions and principles he has formed from past experience and home environment and has held since adolescence. Nevertheless, most Freshmen strange to Boston will be affected by its quaint reserve and quiet individualism. That is but natural...
...short while ago, the tensely industrious quiet of a Mallinckrodt laboratory was broken by a dull explosion, and quickly the large rooms filled with dense, choking vapors. There was a horrified silence; then an impotent, gesticulating circle formed around a stiff figure with eyes wrinkled shut in agony, with face glistening from chemicals which had geysered up. The stricken one uttered low, meaningless cries,--obviously it was shock...
...Burco shares. The Curb said it was curious to learn what made Delta so valuable. New York Attorney General John James Bennett Jr. said he was curious to learn what connection there was between the Delta deal and the recent sale of Burco ownership to a group of Canadians. Quiet investigations by Mr. Bennett last week involved questioning men from the big brokerage house of Paine. Webber & Co. and big Guaranty Trust Co. Wall Street broke out with a rash of rumors about other investment trusts...