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Word: disrupter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Five hundred skirted Seniors of Stephens Junior College for Women at Columbia, Missouri, are rumored to be planning an invasion of Harvard as arousing as the fabled Martian attack and as irresistable as Professor Merk's westward movement, threatening to disrupt completely College routine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 500 Skirted Seniors May Lighten Crimson Skies Soon | 2/7/1942 | See Source »

...disrupt the life of the Islands, the military gave permission for two Jap papers to reappear, considered resumption of Jap broadcasts from Hawaii's radio stations. Only thus could the Army convey its orders to non-English-speaking Japs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: The Stranger Within Our Gates | 1/19/1942 | See Source »

...terrific headache. You can't just pick up 150,000 persons and put them in a concentration camp. It would disrupt the life of the Islands and pose a bigger problem than any we are prepared to handle at the moment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: The Stranger Within Our Gates | 1/19/1942 | See Source »

...place. And "exceptional cases" is simply another way of saying can otherwise complete their degree requirements." No man will be allowed to take his Generals at mid-years unless he is able, scholastically, to finish all the necessary courses ordinarily required of a four-year student. It will only disrupt the first half year to the extent that each applicant will have to take a half, or possibly a full course more than he had originally planned to take in his Senior year. But if he is in danger of being drafted before June, he should at least be given...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Exams For The Draftees | 10/21/1941 | See Source »

Immediately the air was blue with protests. The space had been reserved for expansion of nearby Arlington National Cemetery. The Army scheme would require new roads, new utilities, thousands of new houses in already crowded suburbs in northern Virginia. It would disrupt the east-west axis running from the Capitol through the Washington Monument across the Potomac. It would break up a fine vista...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Army Raises a Ghost | 8/18/1941 | See Source »

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