Word: restless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During March Harvard begins to grow somewhat restless. No longer do the section meetings hold their charm for the student who has to attend them. Sometimes he even wishes he had not enjoyed himself quite so much during the winter. The cold that he had to guard against then can only be found now where the sun never penetrates--and he shivers in his seat in the halls of Sever. He is impatient of the slow-melting ice on the Charles. It is time the grass began to grow green, be thinks--and lapses into the traditional dreams...
...RACKET?Chicago on a particularly restless evening when a gunman shoots a cop (TiME...
...think that in the Latin countries the effort of women's indirect rule is to improve culture, and to raise the estate of the arts. Culture is accumulative," the Count remarked, "and women are an accumulative lot. Men, on the other hand, are restless, and inclined to discard what they have used for a time, and when there is such constant replacement there cannot be culture in the real sense...
Keyserling. The extremely tall, incessantly restless philosopher whose domed cranium and pointed chin give his head the shape of a child's peg top is Count Hermann Keyserling, 47, head of the Darmstadt School of Wisdom, and creator of sensitive, soul piercing books.* Like the humming of a peg top is Count Keyserling's conversation. He chattered and he lectured in perfect English, last week, to lionizing Manhattanites, but so rapidly and with so much finger-waggling that some were abashed and others annoyed...
...birds at some unseen rumpus in the air dart from tree to tree, members of the New York Stock Exchange last week dashed from post to post in restless frenzy to buy, to sell. When one day was done and there had subsided the wild scream of men shouting diversely, they found that they had dealt with 3,228,300 shares...