Word: tranquillize
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...language used around the table is quite different from that used over the telephone or in the mail. The process of consultation between the leading political men has worked in the League of Nations. If a great experiment like the League had been launched into a tranquil, peaceful world, all would have said it was a great thing. All would have watched it with interest and helped it as much as possible. But instead the League was launched into the most troubled world history has ever known, where hate was dominant...
...Chicago Civic Opera Company is the descendant of the old Chicago Opera Company which gave New York's Metropolitan such a hard fight several years ago. But if the Eastern organization keeps on its way, tranquil in security and prosperity, the Mid-Western company faces infinitely disturbing questions and doubts. A little history will not come amiss...
...will continue to be " for the student a finishing school, for the administration a business establishment, for the ordinary teacher a routine, for the investigator a means for supporting his researches, and for American life, as a whole, in relation to the real forces of the age, a tranquil and almost stagnant backwater...
...sports) and have his social relaxation at tea and dinner. Then at seven-thirty or eight he might attend his lectures and classes, which with his laboratory, might last until eleven or eleven-thirty. His mind, when the flighty activity of the morning had worn off, would be more tranquil and receptive and possibly in an even better state for receiving lectures than in the morning. Under such a system the big lecture courses might well come during the first period of the evening. It would perhaps be advisable to have the advanced courses meet once a week...
...fiancee as unreal as all the rest. Conventional thoughts and aspirations and sentiments combine in her to make a personality that is a mere summation of unrealities. But all these things are real to Peter in "Simon Called Peter" by Robert Keable. The surface of the man leads its tranquil surface existence...