Word: quiteness
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...render great service to beleaguered Boonesborough. This is the best sequence in the picture. On fire after a nine-day siege by Indians and renegade whites, Boone's stockade is saved by a heavy rain-a deed of Providence so terrifying to the superstitious braves that they quit fighting. When the Virginia knaves have stolen with a legal writ the acres that defied the tomahawk, Boone and his men, Kentuckians now, turn to the trail again, westward into a waiting continent...
...tiny ship soared up to 1,600 ft., flew ten miles till it crashed into the Santa Suzanna Mountains after 1 hr., 47 min. Announcing that the demonstration had brought him a backer, Cinemactor Denny crowed: "I can fiddle around as much as I want to and can quit worrying about whether the plant loses money...
...M.I.T. adviser who believes in the inflexibility of economic law is Oliver Mitchell Wentworth Sprague, the Harvard seer who quit his advisory job in the Treasury in a huff over New Deal monetary policy. Last week in Washington Mr. ' Sprague held forth upon investment policy for the benefit of SEC. Pointing out that M.I.T. was deeply concerned with steady income. he observed that if appreciation were the chief object, a trust should be a one-man affair...
Bernard DeVoto should do things with it. He is a man who loves an upset. When he edited the Harvard Graduates' Magazine he offended so many old grads so indiscriminately that they demanded his resignation. But when he quit the number of cancelled subscriptions spelled death for the Magazine. He has been treating the readers of the S. R. L. for two or three years now, to excellent although infrequent reviews of headline books. As editor there are possibilities before him which may make the Saturday Review a critical organ without parallel in this country...
...being run in newspapers by Nation's Business, houseorgan of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce. The current number in the series describes management as the "nation's most important resource," managers as today's "forgotten men." Reads the copy: "Isn't it time to quit talking about this land of ours as if it were split into hard and fast classes, and to think of it for what it really is, the greatest spot on the globe, if not the only one. where classes do not really exist but all. under the direction of management...