Word: taciturnly
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...temperament, few football coaches have developed the technique of taciturn uncertainty to the point reached by Dana X. Bible of the University of Nebraska. President of the American Football Coaches' Association, athletic director at Nebraska, with a lifetime record of 124 games won, 30 lost, 12 tied and a salary of at least $10,000 a year. Coach Bible's career has been a model of its kind. It seems to give him little satisfaction. A pot-bellied little man, whose brown, bald, elliptical head has developed an unmistakable resemblance to a football, he is the 44-year...
...Haven John Coolidge, taciturn son of the 30th President, was drawn into conversation about his job with the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad. Having progressed in seven years from junior clerk in the statistical bureau to the general manager's office to the accounting department to ''a responsible position" in the purchasing department, New Haven's Coolidge declared: "I love being called a railroad man. It's been highly interesting and very nice. . . . I've never really had any desire to mix in politics and there is little danger of my being asked. During the years father...
...Encyclopedia Britannica comes in 24 volumes and costs $126.50; if the smallest New International comes in 14 volumes and costs $95; if Everyman's comes in twelve volumes and costs $30, then how can a Michigan farmer afford a first-rate encyclopedia? The tall, taciturn proprietor of one Michigan farm looked over a fence rail at his neighbors and pondered that question. What the U. S. needed, Dr. Clarke Fisher Ansley decided, was a good one-volume encyclopedia...
Thaddeus Fairbanks invented the platform scale in St. Johnsbury, Vt. in 1830. It was the first substantial improvement in the art of weighing since the Romans developed the graduated steelyard. Before he died, the taciturn, ingenious Vermonter was honored as one of the great inventors of the 19th Century. He was knighted by the Emperor of Austria, awarded high Saracenic orders by the Bey of Tunis. In the U. S., Fairbanks scale were used in every general store, post office and coal yard. Their accuracy was proverbial. Huge freight car scales were supposed to respond to the weight...
...mine in North America. Alexander Baranof, first Governor of Russian America, bought copper from the Kennecott district Indians in the 18th Century to cast a bell. A hundred years later two grizzled sourdoughs stumbled upon what looked like grass on the mountainside at Kennecott, found pure copper ore. A taciturn young engineer named Stephen Birch bought their claims. With backing from Daniel Guggenheim, a railroad was pushed up the Copper River Valley, and the Kennecott mine opened in 1911. The first year of operation (1912), more than $20,000,000 in copper rolled down the rails to Tidewater...