Word: franticness
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...condemnation of the Cambridge City Council's current attack on Harvard would not only be adding to the plethora of frantic phrases already heaped on the incident, but would be providing additional fodder with which to keep alive in the press a biased and sensational publicity story so strongly tinged with politics and so little concerned with academic matters that it deserves the speediest possible interment...
...area slowly, awaiting a lights-on signal. Then one of these, from Fort Worth, with 15 passengers, prepared to descend. The great field was outlined feebly with lantern light. Down came the ship, its searchlights poking through the black, when suddenly the field lights blazed on and a frantic hour was over. Next day Chicago's City Council decreed immediate installation of an emergency power plant for Chicago Airport...
...Psychologically regarded, the episode was symbolic of their frantic desire to break into the parade of life," Lee said, calling the episode "a most pathetic, and yet a revealing thing...
...Manhattan. Purgee O'Connor, chairman of the potent House Rules Committee, made frantic efforts to get the Republicans to back him against the White House candidate, one James H. Fay, deputy internal revenue collector. The Republicans decided he savored too strongly of Tammany Hall, last week named their own primary candidate: Allen Welsh Dulles, 45, lawyer, onetime (1916-26) State Department underling...
...Chinese cook, he favored Chinese crews over his partners' objections. When the Central Pacific was stopped by wild mountain country (during 1866 only 28 miles of track were laid), the rival Union Pacific was pushing rapidly across level plains, making fortunes for its owners. The partners were frantic but Crocker only added more Chinese, had them digging through rock so hard that four crews advanced only eight inches a day. When Stanford sent steam drilling equipment, Crocker refused to let it be tried...