Word: flagrantly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This practice, it seems to me, is wholly unnecessary, from your standpoint, and from that of the Southerner, assumes almost nauseating proportions. Furthermore, its protraction, in the face of previous protest, impresses me as a flagrant affront to the feelings of our people. If it be, as it appears, your desire to alienate and force from your ranks such readers of TIME as hail from the South, you are pursuing a most effectual course...
Last year a Crimson waiters eight defeated the Eli bus boys by nearly ten lengths in a quarter mile race. This overwhelming defeat was inflicted on the Blue shell in spite of a flagrant violation in crew etiquette on the part of the Yale coxswain, who in addition to steering his boat its somewhat zigzag course down the Thames, assisted the progress of his shell by using a canoe paddle. It is reported that both camps intend to take the Waiters race seriously this year...
...people. I believe, in fact, that Hindenburg's election will prove a stabilizing influence in post-War Germany." Pan-Germanism. "I cannot at this point help referring to German propaganda in favor of the annexation of Austria. I am sure the Senate agrees with me that such a flagrant violation of existing treaties cannot be countenanced." Russia. "What we have seen can fill us with joy, for we have seen that Communist experiment has totally failed, because Communism, which tends to level all men down, is opposed to life and the nature of man, who is, by instinct, individualistic...
...Greece, public opinion flew into a virulent huff. The Government sent a stiff note to Turkey, charging that country with a flagrant breach of engagements entered into under treaties affecting Grece. It was further alleged by the Greek Government that the Mixed Commission, which is overseeing the transfer of Greek and Turk to their respective lands, have decided that the Patriarch was unexchangeable*. Acting President Paul Koundouriotis canceled a diplomatic reception. As a sign of grief, Parliament was adjourned. Conscripts of the 1923 class, whose disbandment was ordered, were commanded to stay with the colors. War murmurs were...
...great Yale family and to administer the affairs of the University in sympathy and co-operation with Faculty and alumni. They have not felt that the sole privilege allowed the loyal alumnus should be that of contributing to the Alumni Fund. Such men cannot but be alarmed at the flagrant disregard of their desires in the matter of the construction of Hush Hall...