Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hannibal's Pass. Much archaeological work is done not by digging, but by patiently assembling data in a quiet study. Twenty-five years ago, Sir Gavin de Beer, now director of London's British Museum of Natural History, set himself the task of finding out how the army of Hannibal the Carthaginian crossed the Alps to invade Italy...
Through a long summer she copes with daughters, coddles temperamental Roza the cook, and Toona the city-bred maid, who remarks ominously that "the country is awfully quiet." She gets distractedly involved in the church fair and in the problem of finding an extra man for a "little dinner" ("Charles says . . . he will attend to it. Am stunned with gratitude and surprise...
Despite '30's consumption of hot clam chowder, 250 pounds of salads, and 150 dozen rolls, the First Aid Station reported that "things were generally quiet." Under the beverage canopy, 50 quarts of liquor disappeared, along with some 30 cases of soda pop. Joseph D. McCarthy (no relation) was again Field Marshal of Spirits, and supplied the details for those entranced by statistics. Bourbon was most popular, rye the least, and martinis led Manhattans, although the margin narrowed late in the afternoon...
...students of Harvard University. Until they prove themselves to the contrary they so remain. And there are certain definite duties of the student at Harvard, invested as he is with the freedom of Harvard. He must be a gentleman. A gentleman respects tradition. And the traditions of Harvard are quiet traditions...
...traditions of Harvard may be quiet but they also must strong, for with the exception of a few changes of emphasis, many have survived the almost three decades that have passed since that September. Changes like the House system, Reading Period, and Lamont Library have transformed segments but the general tenor of undergraduate life remains. What the returning member of the Class of 1930 will probably notice most are not the changes, but the similarities between the present College and the one he remembers...