Word: furor
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...House debate dragged, but at night the discussion became more lively. It was marked by several disturbances of a personal nature. Congressman Burnett, of Alabama, while attacking Kitchin, found occasion to direct a remark to Congressman Heflin, from his own state. The two Alabama members commenced such a furor that it was necessary for Sergeant-at-Arms Gordon to raise the mace to quiet the disorder...
Yale has been living up to her reputation this spring in the furor that has stirred her over her crew. There have been imported coaches and rumors of revolutionary shifts in the orders and such a boiling over as never before was seen by the banks of New Haven on the Sound. And in contrast, though there have been shifts, galore and unexpected, our crews have gone on comparatively quiet waters in the public mind and few men in the University realize that we have a "rowing situation." But we have. The order of the crews that leave today...