Word: feverish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Anyone who reads the headlines in the newspapers of this country knows that Japan is in a particularly feverish stage of her ago-long quarrel with China. Anyone travelling in Japan is spared the trouble of reading the headlines to ascertain this fact...
After two years of feverish construction during which more than $10,000,000 was poured into rights, roadbeds and tunnels, the competing lines agreed to return again to their backyards. So eight months before completion the "South Penn" was abandoned, peace reigned in the Alleghenies and no appreciable dent was made in the $200,000,000 Vanderbilt fortune...
...adjoining Germany, just after Adolf Hitler became Chancellor, Mr. Gordon was Counselor of the U. S. Embassy during feverish weeks while the Reichstag was burned down and the Nazis pursued their bludgeoning Revolution. With the then British Ambassador to Germany Sir Eric Phipps vigorous Mr. Gordon teamed and they were long the only two diplomats in Berlin who stickled for their nationals' rights and stood up to the Nazis. They are credited with having persuaded that non-Nazi German gentleman, Baron Constantin von Neurath, that it was his duty to stay on as Foreign Minister when, upset...
...warn the Spanish Leftist Government not to do any more "denting" with submarines or torpedoes. In the House of Commons open charges had been heard that the whole "Leipzig incident" was a Nazi fiction or nightmare. The visit of Baron von Neurath to London was expected to reduce feverish international wrangling over Spain to a cool, almost a British temperature-and then suddenly in Berlin last week the Führer summoned his Cabinet, had his tantrum...
...orderly, calm, and drenched in the peaceful atmosphere most conducive to a protest for peace. On the other hand, the peace strikes of other years had been rendered futile by the ridicule and indifference of a Harvard community that considered the strike paradoxically militant. In 1935, the spring-feverish antics of Hitler-mustachioed students clad in boy scout uniforms easily outshone the vain attempts of the peace lectures...