Word: quelling
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Within the twinkling of an eye, the Cambridge police appeared on the scene armed with nightsticks, machetes, battle-axes, and a couple of French seventy-fives. With their customary fortitude and wisdom, they managed to quell the "disturbance" with only a few casualties. But since then, the U. T. has held no more "stagsmoker with eight (8) acts of vaudeville...
Sparked by Captain Dave Ives and Herky Herskovits, Coach Jack Carr's soccer eleven came from behind to quell a threatening Tufts uprising with a 4 to 1 triumph in the season's opening tilt on the Business School Field, Saturday...
...quell the "quite inaccurate" publicity accorded these rules, Dame Gwynne-Vaughan gave a Women Journalists' Jamboree last week at Brighton, but added little to ATS lore beyond stating: "The qualities sought in a young ATS officer include something of the motherliness of the matron in a boys' school. The girls bring their troubles...