Word: tranquil
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...principles of which he never lost sight. He was a gentleman reared in and almost feudal civilization, maintaining to the last the virtues and the blemishes of that civilization. He was a leader of bright, if restricted vision, a politician of sound, if conventional theory, a man of careful, tranquil thought. Like Lincoln he possessed that rare ability of assessing human values...
...boughs trail their white burden on the road way. In the woods, where the sun falls, snow slides off the needles and drops with a soft thud. A tiny rabbit scurries off on hastily remembered business and a grouse whirrs up into the blue. The world is quiet, and tranquil, and fair to see. The world is new, and merry, and very friendly...
...removing all physical limitations on the student it gives him every chance to concentrate on getting an education. Making provision for the eternal and relentless hunger which traditionally overcomes the undergraduate about midnight will remove the last barrier which separates a man from having every possible opportunity for tranquil study...
With Jesus and For Jesus? With the calm assurance of one to whom the future is all but an open book, Pius XI concluded thus: "Everything is definitely promised in answer to prayer; if the answer will not be the re-establishment of serene and tranquil relations, it will have its answer at any rate in Christian patience, in holy courage, in the infallible joy of suffering something with Jesus and for Jesus, with the youth and for the youth so dear to Him, until the hour hidden in the mystery of the divine heart which will infallibly...
...maestro himself, he cabled his U. S. secretary: "I am tranquil." And in sunny, quiet St. Moritz last week he was unmolested. Visitors were told he would see no one. Said a neighbor: ''Something goes on until two or three o'clock in the morning. Lights are turned on in the villa. A piano answers softly to the master's hands. Then the music stops and the lights go out. These musicians have their own way of resting...