Word: furore
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...front cover) In 1886, famed "Cap" Anson created a furor by taking his Chicago baseball team (including Evangelist Billy Sunday) to Hot Springs, Ark. to get ready for the opening of the season. Since then, spring training has been a baseball institution. Main purpose of spring training is not to recondition baseballers but to recondition baseball addicts, by reminding them that a new season is about to start, reviving their interest in the game. By last week, baseball addicts had had six weeks of training-camp news to assure them that the 1937 major-league season would start in Boston...
...recommendation; either could have vetoed or changed it. Thus to the beat of the Council's knowledge, after talking to all men concerned, it seems that the decision was based on the comparative ability of the men; those responsible for the policy realized that this dismissal might cause a furor among the undergraduates and the press, but they did not change their policy on this account...
...recommendation; either could have vetoed or changed it. Thus to the beat of the Council's knowledge, after talking to all men concerned, it seems that the decision was based on the comparative ability of the men; those responsible for the policy realized that this dismissal might cause a furor among the undergraduates and the press, but they did not change their policy on this account...
Dodge. They set up a public furor, got the city's newspapers solidly behind them. In May, convinced that they were being deliberately impeded, they took the extraordinary step of barring an assistant district attorney from their proceedings. After this clean break with local officialdom, their next move was to plump their rage and scorn and indignation square on the doorstep of New York's Herbert...
...spite of the recently unearthed Connecticut State law dealing with "red flags" which caused a furor both here and in Cambridge a steady throng of Harvard undergraduates poured into town this afternoon, bringing along numerous Crimson banners which are the center of attack. The Yale student body spent the better part of the day in preparation for the numerous social and athletic activities which are planned to entertain the visitors from Cambridge and a host of invading female guests...