Word: frantic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Toronto set to work on an $8,000,000 order for 12,000 machine guns. Seven thousand of the guns, light-weight Brens adapted from Czechoslovakia models, will be distributed to the Canadian militia, 5,000 will be shipped to Britain to aid the mother country in her frantic scramble to rearm...
Next morning the Jews' cries and frantic waving of handkerchiefs attracted the attention of Czech villagers. A Czech patrol boat took off the penniless, ill-clad, hungry group...
...Students need to be told how easily course work can accumulate, and lucky is that undergraduate who has escaped the horrors of the cramming procedure which ensues when the day of reckoning looms. The routine of frantic review, late hours, neglect of exercise, tension, gloom, and the search for stimulants is a familiar if unwelcome specter. And the search for stimulants has not been fruitless. Last spring the resort to benzedrine was momentarily popular until "debunked" as habit-forming. This spring the answer seems to be caffein pills, which, it is claimed, are some ambrosian and utopian pick...
...quietly on Friday morning, selling waves swept over the floor in successive shocks which knocked the ticker four minutes behind and kept traders on the jump with the biggest volume since January-1,600,000 shares. Next day, being Saturday, was only a half-day for trading, but the frantic dumping of securities reached 1,380,000 shares before the closing bell brought the debacle to a halt. As the ticker caught up, brokers for the first time in three weeks forgot to talk about Richard Whitney. They were too busy reading that U. S. Steel was down...
...outside his mansion windows. At times he thought he was going insane. Beaten in one campaign after another, he was finally jeered off the stage in Atlanta, where he had had so many triumphs. Until the end of his life he detested industrialism in all its forms, was driven frantic by noise, and in the depths of his despair and hatred of the modern world cried out: "Come back to us once more oh dream of the old time South...