Word: disturbance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shakespeare, whose writing he considered "obscure." "What do you think of this passage?" he scornfully asked a Shakespearean enthusiast: " 'I would as lief be thrust through a quicket hedge as cry Pooh to a callow throstle.'" The enthusiast explained: "A great lover of feathered songsters, rather than disturb the little warbler, would prefer to go through a thorny hedge. But I can't for the moment recall the passage." Said Gilbert: "I have just invented it, and jolly good Shakespeare...
...Charles for sometime. Before anyone had conceived the idea of building a permanent bridge across the river, the College prospered on a ferry boat business. It was the ever enterprising John Hancock who in 1786 spanned the Charles despite objections from the Harvard Corporation that such facile communication would disturb the College's scholars and be conducive to corrupting their morals. Hancock silenced the President and Fellows with a grant of two hundred pounds per annum for the toll bridge concession. But Hancock's profitable monopoly suffered thereupon from a bridge-building craze which lasted down to 1858 when...
...there be serious study and discipline when five minutes before the end of the period, a jazz tune or a Christmas carol comes over .the loudspeaker to disturb the lesson; that is the signal for everyone to talk.. . . Bells ring, and 1,200 students rush shrieking into the halls. A clock and bells are the dictators of the schools...
...general, industry accepted most of Nathan's facts but decried his conclusions and-most of all-his implications, which in effect would put a ceiling on profits, discourage risk capital, tend to squeeze out marginal enterprises, and otherwise disturb the machinery of free enterprise...
...cops drove up, observed the proceedings and went into the caretaker's office to keep warm. Since the veterans were deserving 13th Ward boys, no 13th Ward politician was inclined to disturb them. In fact, a few precinct captains hurried around to help. Nobody interfered as the squatters began bringing furniture and clothes and getting their wives and children settled...