Word: tranquillity
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...happened, we find ourselves turning to the morning's headlines with an air of comparative indifference, prepared for the ordinary "local engagements" and "improvements of positions," where a week ago we snatched at the morning paper prepared for the worst. In this country, we have undoubtedly slipped into this tranquil stage behind the heavy barrage of the Loan campaign, which has given us little time for other things. Is the present state of mind one of unjustified confidence? By no means, Hard tests still confront the Allied armies; but the fact that refuses to be explained away is that...
...tranquil assurance of the answer had an effect such as I hardly ever knew produced by the most eloquent sentences I ever heard uttered...
...sure that the octogenarian is not still open to the criticism of middle-aged persons that he "wants to do too many things at once." In any organization to which he belongs you will find him pulling at the tugs with all his might, in the tranquil assurance that there will be enough prudent persons to man the brakes...
...undergraduates, we write a few humble words in appreciation of the scope of his accomplishments and the permanent influence of his work. He combines the qualities of a great teacher and a powerful thinker, is a literary artist of high distinction and "a philosopher of original sense with a tranquil enthusiasm for truth...
...righteousness, a literary artist--fit editor of the poems of his spiritual ancestor, George Herbert; his refinement in style, whether in philosophy or literature being no mere fastidiousness, but the reflex of refined thought, a philosopher in the original sense, widely influential for good and imbued with a tranquil enthusiasm for truth which gives substance and worth to all his work...