Word: flagrantly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Flagrant Criminals Exposed...
...received as much as $500 for their services Shortly after the announcement the President and Board of Trustees ordered the curtailing of athletics. Funds formerly devoted to sports will serve to establish a new chair of theology. Presumably this drastic measure arose from a recognition of the fact that flagrant breaches of the amateur code like the payment of outstanding athletes are caused by the disproportionate emphasis which has been placed upon intercollegiate football in the colleges. Yet no measure could be more illogical...
Jean Hortense Norris, widowed Manhattan Magistrate: "I, famed for my vitality, for my vigorous interest in matrimonial felicity (TIME, June 28), last week adjusted a flagrant case of impending desertion. One Martha Rosa, 20, appeared in my court charging that one Sixto Margon, 21, Negro, steward on S. S. Cuemo of the Porto Rican Line, was that day sailing for Porto Rico, intending to desert her in a crisis. I at once despatched a detective, who arrested Steward Margon just as the gangplank was being drawn up. After I had lectured him, he married Miss Rosa forthwith. I was congratulating...
...facts, once obtained, were in the nature of High explosives. South Carolina had been guilty of a flagrant sin of ommission. In pursuing the case to its ultimate conclusion--official inquiry--the World has probably earned as many enemies as friends. Certainly the brotherhood of the press seems to be strained; South Carolina papers retorted that the Pulitzer journal was meddling in other people's business merely for the sake of sensationalism. Very wisely the World took no notice of such accusations other than to comment succinctly on the sensitiveness of the unjust. By their really frenzied editorials, which were...
...these fields, have followed upon each other, with startling rapidity. Furthermore, state universities have often been drawn directly into the political field through the control of the Governor over the Board of Regents, or whatever the university governing body may be named. The most recent and flagrant example of this second type of abuse of power was the arbitrary removal of Dr. Henry Guzzallo, President of the University of Washington. It was charged at the time that Dr. Guzzallo, a political opponent of the governor, was removed at his instigation by a Board of Regents packed with the Governor...