Word: flutter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...statesman solemnly announced that he favored upholding the Constitution, U. S. citizens quietly turned to their sports pages and forgot him. If he asserted that the Government ought to protect property rights, ought to encourage men to earn, save, acquire and keep property, he could not stir even a flutter of interest. But last week when six eminent gentlemen propounded these propositions they made front-page news. Finally it seemed as if the New Deal were to meet something more potent than the disorganized opposition of Herbert Hoover's well-beaten henchmen...
...later the 7th) District of Ohio. He was successively re-elected until 1922, having resigned Antioch's presidency in 1917. In 1922 with strong female and Dry support he won his seat in the Senate, defeating Democratic Senator Atlee Pomerene. In Congress: Except for one innocent flutter toward Progressivism in his early days in the House, his Congressional career has been marked by the strictest party regularity. He thinks regular, talks regular, votes regular. As chairman of the Republican National Congressional Campaign Committee in 1918-'20-'22. he did yeoman service by helping rally heavy...
...Flutter of wing or tail surfaces may wrack a plane to pieces when it reaches a certain periodicity and intensity. With military planes approaching 300 m.p.h., wing flutter has become a major problem. The committee has developed a method of foreseeing and guarding against structural fatigue and failure...
Soon a riveting hammer began to beat, then another and another. With a great squawking and flutter hundreds of angry gulls rose from the shell that had been their home since 1932. No. 534 was under construction again with money provided by the British Government. The 400 men are just a beginning. Soon 3,800 workmen will be employed and other jobs for other thousands are still to come. Money has been definitely promised, too, for the construction of a sistership so that the merged Cunard-White Star can offer a regular weekly service from both New York and Southampton...
...want speed. I want to fly. I want to attend orchestra dances. . . . One day Gandhi stated that he had not put a fence around the cantonment and any girl could leave, so I took the hint. ... I have written to Gandhi fully concerning my change of heart including the flutter caused in meeting a man with beautiful eyes and brows...