Word: tranquil
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...value. This has meant idle hands, still machines, ships tied to their docks, despairing farm household and hungry industrial families. . . . You and I know that the world does not stand still; that trade movements and relations once interrupted can with the utmost difficulty be restored; that even in tranquil and prosperous times there is a constant shifting of trade channels. . . . Every nation must at all times be in a position quickly to adjust its taxes and tariffs to meet sudden changes and avoid severe fluctuations in both its exports and its imports...
Occupants of rooms surrounding Dunster House courtyard were startled last night about 9 o'clock when a burning sofa hurtled from a fourth floor window in F entry onto the pavement beneath. For fifteen minutes its flames flared up from the court casting an unholy glare over the usually tranquil House and illuminating the efforts of the brave Cambridge fire ladies in their struggle against the fiercest of the elements...
...Rome to the 12th Century, when the index number was 2.7. As Christendom, galvanized by the Crusades, moved toward the Renaissance, the war indices started to climb by leaps & bounds. The index of the 15th Century was 31.12. of the 18th, 567.5. There was a slight downswing in the tranquil 19th; but in the first quarter of the World War century the number was 13,735.98-eight times the total of all preceding centuries...
Replied General Balbo: "I greet you all as a commander and a companion. We are ready with tranquil spirit. I am not unmindful of danger?. . . . But these are not inferior to our destiny...
...fever and soon sought new vigor in the Canadian Rockies. Refreshed by his stay in North America, he returned to London where he passed a civil service examination which led to his appointment as his Majesty's vice-consul at Moscow. This was Indeed a minor post in tranquil 1912. Today the author recalls how pleasing Russia was to him with its carefree days when many a morning he saw the dawn break over the old Kremlin after a gay night in Moscow. His happy-go-lucky spirit was held in check for a time after he married an Australian...