Word: silent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...George, having no choice, nominated for re-election the previous Speaker (who is always renominated) aristocratic Captain Rt. Hon. Edward Algernon Fitzroy. He, by another custom, sat in compulsory "modesty" on an obscure Government back bench last week. Next the Clerk, still silent, swung his extended arm from Government to Opposition, pointed to Laborite Will Thome who promptly seconded the stereotyped nomination. It then became the duty of Nominator Sir George and Seconder Mr. Thorne to advance upon the modest Speaker designate and "drag him to the Chair...
...Opera House, with Dictator Stalin silent as usual on the platform, Red Premier Vyacheslav Molotov cried: "Completion of the Five-Year Plan in four years comes before thoughts of war! The Plan is already 75% fulfilled...
...small charges of electricity, one ribbon positive, the other negative. Entering the copper balls, the electric charges are taken from the ribbon (silk is a less good conductor than copper) and stored on the balls' copper surfaces. Large voltages accumulate quickly as the ribbons whiz through their slits, silent as the belt on a dentist's flexible drill...
...Last week 36 nations, including the U. S., Japan and France, had informally signified their willingness to join a naval building truce for one year. Great Britain continued silent...
...apprehension to run through the court. His colleagues had noticed that Mr. Justice Holmes's shoulders were a little more stooped, that his step was a little more feeble, that he sat and rose with a little more difficulty. During this term Mr. Justice Holmes has been more silent, less smiling than usual. Rarely now does he interrupt an arguing attorney with a barbed question or a comment flashing with wit. He is, his eight friends on the bench now sadly agree, aging...