Word: disturbe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...word connotes, in addition to sublimation of mass energy, an effort to disturb the serenity of others...
...perhaps none more so than Senator Carter Glass, 69, peppery Virginian. He has been close to the Federal government† while these laws took body. Last week he wrote: "We have been so absorbed here [in Congress] that I have not considered it desirable to pause long enough to disturb a queer dream about the paternity of the Federal Reserve act." Less patient "fathers," at dinner tables, might justly say: "In 1913, we who were keen to the inflexibility of the old National banking laws, succeeded in putting through the Congress the Federal Reserve Bank law. . . ." Alexander Hamilton created...
...head."-ED. *The question was: "Why do nighthawks, thugs, rich idlers and cabaret girls object strenuously to the Rockefeller carillon in New York and to the proposed Crane carillon in Chicago ?" And the correct answer: "Nighthawks, thugs, rich idlers, cabaret girls, etc., object to carillons because the carillons disturb their hard-earned Sunday morning slumbers...
...class athletics, similar to those at Yale, and the innovation of inter-dormitory games. But Mr. Lowell passes over the first problem--that of over-emphasis--with the following laconic reference (specifically to the practice of having inter collegiate games every Saturday of the autumn)--"It tends to disturb seriously the work of education..." This is one of the numerous faults that the new sports policy is supposed to remedy...
...that the words in this statement "no change in the essential athletic relations" meant no change in the rules of eligibility, but that the question of future games was left open. "The athletic relations between Princeton and Harvard are excellent and I am confident that nothing will arise to disturb the amicability of this relationship." "There never has been any suggestion on the part of Harvard of discontinuing athletic contests with Princeton. Some months ago, with the approval of our Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports, I inquired of the Chairman of the Princeton Board of Control...