Word: disturber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drink beer? Yes 86 84 159 104 133 175 132 412 1285 No 17 12 70 21 21 15 25 138 319 2. Would a quart of non-intoxicating 3.2 beer, drunk with meals: Put you under the table? 2 8 16 6 12 16 7 42 109 Disturb the Waitress? 12 7 22 7 19 32 9 75 183 Improve the taste of University food? 72 69 141 86 110 137 120 394 1129 3. If Cambridge ordinances permit, do you favor the service of beer in University dining halls...
...Governor. When he gives a grand reception and one of the guests is a handsome brunette named Senora Martinez (Mona Maris), it comes out amazingly that John has been philandering. Even more amazingly it turns out that Mary has known about it all along. The scandal fails to disturb, for more than a moment, John's happy relations with his wife, fails even to disrupt his campaign for Governor. He has won it, been elected to the U. S. Senate and served in Washington for 30 years by the time his wife explains to their children about the secrets...
Preconceptions were jogged out of routine thinking last night. The audience was nervous and tense, the perfect approach for hearing something real. Mr. Walter Piston of the Music Department of dear old Harvard was the first to disturb the equilibrium. Some of his music in the suite for orchestra, written in the heyday of 1929, was slightly rough. His jazz was positively brutal, but there wasn't enough of it to drug his listeners into any sort of acquiescent mood. He is young and has ideas. I wonder if he is quite good for Harvard boys. He might teach them...
...into the morning sunlight. From Luke and Wheeler Fields, Army planes took the air to repulse the "Black" attack. The bristling guns of the Coast Artillery held the "enemy" fleet out of range at 7½ miles. Though not a shot was fired nor a bomb dropped to disturb the peace of the "Paradise of the Pacific," Oahu fell into hostile hands, and with it the Pearl Harbor Naval Base. Imaginative newsmen reported that the Black attack by air had left Honolulu "a shambles." If it had been real war, the Navy would have lost the famed tanks which Oilman...
Three weeks after the struggle began Mayor I. O. Langum had to issue a municipal order that no one might disturb the combatants. Wiggling desperately, the snake tore the web again & again, but each torn strand clung to it and held it more tightly. Spinning with cold-blooded persistence, the spider lifted the snake higher & higher...