Word: silent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although the committee members were silent on their plans last week, it was thought a meeting would be called in a few days, a staff of experts organized to find and arrange data. No quick cure-all was expected but any legislative changes the committee proposes seem certain of enactment, so potent is the committee's personnel...
Oris Paxton Van Sweringen, 53, and his two-year-younger brother Mantis James were at home in Cleveland last week, silent as to what they thought of the Nickel Plate's situation. Quiet, busy bachelors who live together in the fashionable Shaker Heights district which they built up, the "Vans" have always been shy of publicity. But many a success writer has written of their rise from newspaper selling with pooled assets of $16.32 to a position where they control 29,704 miles of track with Cleveland's new Union Terminal as their monument. The Depression has brought a severe...
...Board Examination system. For certain types of schools and for transferring students there are many benefits in that system. Yet, when there are so many facts to be learned by heart, certain details to be harped on endlessly, teaching becomes as soulless as was the music at an old silent movie. For example, in the Old Plan Restrictive English Examination, grammatical rules. MacBeth, Silas Marner, Burke's Conciliation and few others are carefully memorized and then like trained animals the students perform them for the examination. For all the examiner could tell, these seven or eight books might...
...festive mood of Canada's golfers was not shared by the moose-nosed young man who chiefly caused it. Charles Ross ("Silent Sandy") Somerville, journeying homewards to London, Ont. with the U. S. amateur trophy, ignored five telegrams from the homefolks asking when he would arrive for a public reception. He slipped home quietly to his mother's apartment, went to bed right after dinner. Said his mother: "You'd think he had just come from the Hunt Club. You'd never know he'd been away...
...London Hunt Club went ahead anyway, ordered a banquet and gift car for Silent Sandy Somerville...