Word: tranquilize
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Wabash Railroad concentration point at 27th Street & Ashland Avenue, he will appear daily to auction his trees by carload or by bundle to wholesale or retail buyers. His voice may be drowned out by that of his rival, Izzy Cloobeck, who can be heard three miles on a tranquil day, but Gust's trees are known to be topnotch...
...constantly changing his perspective, until he could scarcely bear to touch his blurred and meaningless manuscripts. A few of the scenes took form with all his old perfection...but life shook before his eves, like the picture on the surface of a pond when a stone has disturbed its tranquil mirror." Readers who can appreciate such portaits will recognize that Van Wyck Brooks has succeeded as has no other U. S. critic in interpreting the masters of naitive art and, without reducing their stature in the slightest, made them simple and understandable in their greatness...
...exhibit's two rooms, gallery-goers noted that Etcher Young skilfully shows his snow in three varieties: 1) wet, soft and falling; 2) powdery, windblown; 3) frozen. Like all good etchers Artist Young was able to make pleasing esthetic capital of his bare, black trees, winterset in the tranquil snowscapes. Contrasted were plates from the conventional etcher's portfolio of boats, birds, shorelines, woodland vistas...
...there have been few charges of "politics" in reference to the men that the Committees have nominated, but this is no guarantee that the story in the future will be so tranquil. It appears an easy temptation for a Committee to nominate only those men whom they desire for the ballot, and the student body in the House is forced to spend considerable energy to add other men to the list by the cumbersome petition system...
...which he, a simple Breton from Douarnenez, began fighting as a private, finished as an infantry lieutenant scarred by eleven wounds. After the armistice he entered the Capuchin novitiate, preached to Communist fishermen on the quays of St. Malo, soon became superior of a monastery near Dinard. This tranquil office the robust, jolly Capuchin renounced for the immensely practical missionary work carried on in the French fishing fleets since 1895 by the Société des Oeuvres de Mer. Father Yvon's calling cards now read: "Address from April 20 to Sept. 15 on the Grand Banks...