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Word: disturbances (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...useless," thundered Prime Minister Mussolini, celebrating on the morrow the seventh anniversary of the march on Rome, "and it may be even dangerous to attempt to disturb this divine harmony which runs from the King and from the heir to the Throne to the last peasant in our humblest village...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: Heir of Italy | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

...CRIMSON reporter, not wishing to disturb her equanimity, refrained from suggesting the possibility of the latter event's never coming to pass...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dorothy Britton Interested in Pre Game Actions of Harvard and Dartmouth Men--Will be the Guest of Honor at Ball | 10/25/1929 | See Source »

...continued. "You cannot mark them off from other human values, as though the nature of man were built in bulkheads; as though there were a department of poetry hermetically sealed, a kind of padded room of aesthetic so effectively sound proof that the ravings of poesy are unable to disturb either the moral sense in us or the instinct for truth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "POETRY MUST HIT THE MARK WITHOUT AIMING" | 10/24/1929 | See Source »

...York commission for the suppression of unnecessary noise would find a fertile field for research in the vicinity of Harvard Square. Nearly every variety of irritating clatter that could be devised to disturb the weary student or the would-be sleeper has been practised and brought to the ultimate degree of boisterous refinement by certain Satan-inspired undergraduates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TO SLEEP! AY, THERE'S THE RUB | 10/23/1929 | See Source »

...behavioristic "Science of Marxism" and Marxian doctrine, the Soviet tolerates his slaps gently and without reproach, babies him. Birthday gifts from the Soviet to him include $50,000 endowment of his laboratory and an assurance that traffic would be diverted from the street near it so as not to disturb the conditioned reflexes of some six score dogs, kept there for experimental purposes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 7, 1929 | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

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