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Word: fervors (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cause. What the effects would be on Prohibition and on Life's circulation (now down to 137,000 its 1919 peak of 255,000) remained be seen. One effect on the magazine editorially was to give point to the Prohibition jokes which Life began publishing with redoubled fervor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Circulation by Alcohol | 3/24/1930 | See Source »

...fervor of almamatermania which drove the 200 young men of Harvard to demolish a subway car is even loss desirable. We have many times discussed the merits of the green cap, the St. Pat's parade, and the big rush: but we have never had quite so insane a specimen of sophomorism at Wisconsin as Harvard's expedition into school spirit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: As Others See Us | 2/25/1930 | See Source »

Headlong into what some of its members proclaimed as the most momentous issue before U. S. citizens, the Senate last week plowed with historic fervor. The issue arises from the stern necessity which requires the Supreme Court to spend a large part of its time as a board of economists controlling the profits of public corporations under the 14th Amendment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Dred Scott Cited | 2/24/1930 | See Source »

...received a committee of the Indian Nationalist Congress, asked that he be appointed Dictator of Disobedience and given a council of war with sole power to say where, when, and in what manner "civil disobedience" was to start. The Nationalist congressmen, who venerate Saint Gandhi with almost religious fervor, but do not always do what he wants, argued secretly for six hours, intimated they would give him the appointment he desired. Thus proceeded the vast trouble which some observers predict will be the worst world-trouble of this decade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Dictator of Disobedience | 2/24/1930 | See Source »

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