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Word: quiets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tufts was really never able to mount much of an offense and the two Crimson goalies Tom Bagnoli and Bob Forbush passed a quiet afternoon. With the exception of a flurry or two in the final periods, the Jumbos were on the defensive for the whole game...

Author: By James W.B. Benkard, | Title: Harvard Downs Tufts, 6-0 | 10/3/1958 | See Source »

...become a PBH vo-volunteer is simple: all that is required is a person's signature. To do a competent job is more difficult. Working in an emergency ward or teaching in prison is not a glorious job; the rewards are quiet ones. The most external recognition is a pin signifying 100 hours of work. It is a most deserved accolade

Author: By Judith Blitman, | Title: In Which We Serve | 10/3/1958 | See Source »

Happy, contented students are quiet students, and the Administration's policy toward undergraduates has always been pacifist. The violence of student riots shakes the gentleman tradition of Harvard to the core, and disturbs University Hall--especially the Deans, because Deans dislike noise...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Is Everybody Happy? | 10/2/1958 | See Source »

Remember, however, that the number of Southern students who thus actively broadcast their discontents is relatively small. A far greater number, indeed the majority, attempt a quiet, less dogmatic approach to the integration problem. Perhaps it is because their manner is more relaxed and their conclusions less dogmatic that they form the generally unheard Southern voice...

Author: By A Southerner, | Title: 'Not Our Kind of People' | 9/30/1958 | See Source »

...like Sandy Kaye's "Afternoon Thoughts in Delft" best. It is a simple and tranquil poem, the best kind, and Sandy Kaye's piece seems to have an uncommon fragility about it. A lady sits in a doorway of Vermeer's "Street in Delft," thinking of the quiet and the secure things she knows about her faded old home. The poem is the woman talking, and yet it is not the woman talking because her thought seems to transcend her feeling. Be sure to hunt up the print in the library if you like the poem...

Author: By Gavin Scott, | Title: The Harvard Advocate | 9/30/1958 | See Source »

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