Word: furore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...private in the Air Force, not by compulsion, but by desire. I am here because I want to see the new-world principles of free thought and free speech preserved. I have followed closely the furor caused by the flag-wavers who would deny Lew Ayres the right to do what so many Americans are too cowardly to do -stick by honest principles regardless of public opinion...
...kind of painting he had always wanted to do. He returned to Cedar Rapids with a new way of looking at things, started to paint Iowa with the meticulous care of a Memling in modern dress. Two years later American Gothic, exhibited at the Chicago Art Institute, created a furor, and Painter Wood's reputation was made...
...nearly three hours the delegates made speeches. Most violent was Chile's Rossetti. He literally screamed at calm, impassive Padilla, who had described the furor over "no podrán continuar" and "podrán no continuar" as a "drama of grammar." Chile had called the Conference in the first place, and now Chile's representative was one of the two most active in preventing unity. Argentina alone might not have gone through with intransigence; bolstered by Chile, her position was far stronger...
Finally the University conceded to make a slight wage increase, and agreed to a preferential rather than a closed shop. The furor ended with the preferential shop becoming a virtual closed shop as a large number of employees switched...
...years, ever since Hutchins began his campaign to put the study of philosophy ahead of the study of science, the university has been in a constant intellectual furor. Students staged a running debate in the Daily Maroon on the topic: Facts v. Ideas; professors posted arguments on bulletin boards. So preoccupied with intellectual matters is Chicago that when the university dropped out of intercollegiate football last year and abandoned big Stagg Field to schoolboys, students and alumni uttered scarcely a whimper...