Word: dormant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...primaries, tantamount to election. Bibb Graves, onetime (1927-31) Governor, became the first man in 33 years to succeed to that office a second time. Defeated by 20,000 votes, Major Frank M. Dixon, Birmingham lawyer, loudly cried that Graves's victory was a triumph for the long dormant Klan. Not only did Bibb Graves deny the accusation, but the Grand Dragon of the State assured one & all that only six of his Klaverns are now active, none for Graves...
...Grad" I wish to voice my unqualified approval of the proposal to rekindle the dormant attitude of the undergraduate body toward the coming contest with "Old Eli" by staging a football rally on the eve of the epic battle. It is my sincere hope that the revival of this traditional custom will restore the "Harvard Spirit" to the status of the glorious past and expose the much-vaunted "Harvard indifference" as a myth propounded by white-livered pseudo-cynics who consider disloyalty to their alma mater a mark of intellectual superiority...
Viewing the production itself, one must accept the fact that Sidney Howard, the author, made no serious attempt to sweep his audience off its feet. The violent emotions of fear, hate, and rage, that Harvard's eminent Dr. Cannon has so well described are permitted to lie dormant. Effects are obtained by the presentation of agreeable and familiar types, involved in situations which bring out character and comedy...
...Brewery Workers Union, a dormant allied organization which woke up when beer came back, was ready to quit the Federation when it found that its teamsters, engineers and firemen were about to be handed over to the jurisdiction of A. F. of L. teamsters', engineers' and firemen's unions. The Amalgamated Clothing Workers, a strong independent organization with 130,000 members, was ready to add its numbers to the A. F. of L. But there was a hitch. A. F. of L.'s United Garment Workers demanded that Amalgamated unionists stitch no men's clothes...
...back 20 of his 37 years to the time his rich father, the late Henry Pomeroy Davison, avid angler and huntsman, returned from an African shooting trip with tales that made the boy's eyes pop. Some day, he vowed, he would go there too. The idea lay dormant but alive in his mind all the while he drove an ambulance in France in 1915, learned to fly, served as Lieutenant in U. S. N. Air Service, broke his back, made a plucky recovery, launched upon a career of public service aboard a $4,500,000 endowment from...