Word: placidity
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...final development would be for the Harvard O. C. to become a member of the Intercollegiate O. C. Association. Its members could then share in and enjoy such rousing good fellow-good fun occasions as the March Moosilauke winter weekend, or the fall weekend around Lake Placid...
Movies taken by M. I. T., Yale and Dartmouth of College Week at Lake Placid, and films of various climbing trips will be the feature of this evening's entertainment. After the pictures Frank McClintoch of Tech, Hugh Barbour '44, Peter Hearts '43, Howard Odell '43, Roland Mueser '44, and Steve Winship '42, will tell of the activities of the Club...
...they moved him from London to his aunt's house in Hampshire, he knew he was dying, but still he ordered the secret kept. He was too proud to ask for sympathy. He lay in a room whose windows looked out on a grove of larch trees, with placid fields beyond. His wife stayed with him. Occasionally his thin lips curled back from his long, uneven teeth in a grimace of pain. Once a German airman flew over Oldharn Village and dropped a rack of bombs. One fell within 40 yards of where Chamberlain...
...Lester Adran Mount and Samuel Reback examined him, found him "pleasant, placid and cooperative." Aside from his spells, he was in perfect health, showed "high average general intelligence." Nobody in the Institute had ever seen or read or heard tell of anything like...
...rode down Commercial Street for the last time." It has its twisted characters like Negro Tom Williams, Editor White's friend, who was thought to be dangerous because he talked wildly, but who was just a night owl seeing too much going on under Emporia's placid surface-"just interested in knowing why men strayed and women fell and how the devil kept his fires going...