Word: tranquility
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will be within earshot of John Harvard," said Aldrich W. Durant '02, business manager of the University, yesterday, promising he would spare no effort to keep the bronze of the tranquil Puritan from turning blue this weekend...
Fortnight ago, the Duke & Duchess of Windsor arrived quietly in London, went straight to Lord Dudley's tranquil Ednam Lodge estate near Windsor. The unrelenting royal family had sanctioned their visit only if there was a minimum of publicity and display...
...good a majority of the fraudulent Stavisky bonds. But the fortune in jewels, which Stavisky gave to his wife, Arlette, an ex-mannequin and dancer, was still untraced. The former Arlette Stavisky, her terpsichorean tittups long forgotten, recently settled down with her husband, a U.S. Army captain, to a tranquil life in Puerto Rico...
...some 75,000 Indians who live communally on the fringes of predominantly white Argentina, the scene was less tranquil. They feared for their land. At the turn of the century, smart operators had sold title to the Indians' land to absentee landlords. Now the legal owners were trying to move the Indians out. To dramatize their indignation, some 200 Indians last week marched into Buenos Aires after a 1,000-mile cross-pampas trek...
This would mean, for one thing, that the arts would gain greater importance than the West has ever given them. Professor Northrop holds that the sensuous and passionate art of Mexico's Orozco, the sensuous and tranquil art of Georgia O'Keeffe, are essential insights into the nature of things-as are Chinese paintings...