Word: clamorous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...than the 15 year average, and increasing contra-seasonally. The index of power production was abreast of October 1929. The Federal Reserve Board's index of department store sales advanced from 76 in May to 80 in June, and last week's retailing reports revealed a rising clamor for goods. F. W. Dodge reported home construction, key to the building industry, amounting to $49,000,000 in June, up 87% from a year ago and the highest monthly total since October 1931. The automobile industry, surprised at a better month in June than May, reported total output...
Making an unearthly clamor in the early hours of the morning and ceaselessly maintaining their activity throughout the day, a trained group of grass-disease specialists from the Davey School of Tree Surgery have drilled an estimated three million holes in the turf of the Yard...
...Life Insurance directors' meeting, the Supreme Court rendered its decision on the gold cases (TIME, Feb. 25). For two days newshawks had trailed him, begging in vain for some comment. Sternly he put them aside with: "I am no longer in public life." At Tucson, however, the press clamor became so insistent that he put his private thoughts on public paper for the Citizen, personally distributed them collect to the Associated Press, the United Press...
When public clamor on some vital issue becomes too loud for White House comfort, a favorite Presidential trick is to appoint a batch of Big Names to a special commission to investigate the matter. By the time the commission gets around to making a report, the public has usually cooled off, forgotten what the outcry was all about. Most notorious use of this prolonged investigational device was the Wickersham Report on Law Observance and Enforcement, which President Hoover chose to ignore (TIME, Feb. 2, 1931). Last winter President Roosevelt found himself in his first hot water following precipitate cancellation...
...many times the other, and yet, as they sped past the pillared balconies, the waiting men below observed their speed to be the same, then with resounding thud, they fell simultaneously to the soft grass below, landing as one object. The outspoken comments of the gathering rose to loud clamor at this feat of nature. Should a heavy body fall faster than a light one? The man in the balcony leaning perilously above, waited, then turned and descended the winding steps. The intellect of the man Galileo had proved a fact of science...