Word: disruption
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...relationship alluded to in the signature, the student in question, and with him his roommate, made all possible arrangements for repelling the visitor. In fact, a regular cordon of loyal Dunster House men patrolled up and down past the window for the better part of the night--enough to disrupt the best laid plans of the most desperate killer. The intended victim has not since slept in the bedroom, while his roommate has done so, only after erecting across the window a magnificent barricade consisting of his bureau stuffed with old clothes to deaden the force of the expected bullets...
...National Student League at Harvard is highly gratified at the success of the anti-war strike held this morning. Efforts on the part of campus rowdies to disrupt the demonstration failed, due to the strong determination of the students to make this a genuine indication of their opposition...
Permit me, further, to point out that the attempt to disrupt our meeting was carried out with the connivance of University authorities. A rival meeting, unauthorized by the Regent, was given full freedom by the Yard police. Harvard's name was blackened by students in Nazi uniform, shouting for war. The University demands that radical clubs conform to all rules, but turns the other way when its embryonic Fascists violate regulations. The Austrian government which gave the Heimwehr free rein, the German government which took no step against the Hitlerites, practised an analogous "democratic" policy...
...Salvador and the day after Paul Revere's ride offer the scholar little in the way of rest and relaxation or a chance to get away from it all. On the contrary coming as they do usually in the middle of the week, they merely serve to disrupt the flow of work and give to the harrassed undergraduate a day in his room or the library with nothing to do and few places...
...volts which Dr. Van de Graaff expects to produce. At one end of the tube swarms of protons will be released. The high voltage will whip these particles down the tube against a target at the other end. Dr. Van de Graaff hopes that these bullets will disrupt the nuclei of the target's stable atoms in such comparatively copious numbers† that he will 1) learn more about the ultimate constitution of matter; 2) produce superpowerful x-rays: 3) glimpse a clue toward utilization of atomic energy...