Word: gamut
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...provoked a very moderate protest, printed elsewhere, from the harassed Librarian. The disclosure of stealing, mutilation, and abuses of purposely lenient rules but repeats common knowledge; the student body is well aware that some users of the library are robbing the rest by mean and annoying practices. The whole gamut of petty crime, from defacement of pictures and pages to temporary removal or real theft, is traversed by a few, too inconsiderate of others and too greedy of their own convenience...
...from different viewpoints of psychology; Dr. Albert Loyal Crane, of Chicago, on "the unusual child and other fields of applied psychology"; Sinclair Lewis on "literary idiocies"; Bruce Bliven, of the New Republic, on political aspects of the age of jazz, the jazz press, Church and State, wild youth?a gamut of subjects. Herbert Adams Gibbons, journalist-professor, will "do" the Near and Far Easts...
With every apparent qualification for a consistent winner, the Yale five has been erratic all season. It has run the whole gamut from brilliance to mediocrity. In defeating Cornell, the league leaders, it showed a flash of its best form...
...many subjects which can be used as the main part of many answers-leaflets on Party Suggestions, on Hope Chest and Trousseau, on Baby's Welfare-Diets up to 2 Years, on Reducing Weight-Diets and Baths, on Lifting Sagging Face, on Restoring Gray Hair. The whole gamut of human affairs from the cradle to the coffin is provided for in good advice. And in one year of this service Mr. Hearst befriended, and doubtless gained the valuable good will of 70,000 Gothamites, a number that in itself would produce a very respectable circulation for many a newspaper...
...readers miss a single throb in all the gamut of suffering which Mr. Sergel catalogues, it is only because their revolted stomachs bid them turn over the groaning pages to the more common unhappinesses that lie beyond. In particular he dwells on the mental anguish which Arlie Gelston, the heroine, goes through while she is endeavoring to conceal her misfortune from family and townsfolk. No detail is too gruesome for him; he fairly revels in the vivisection of her soul...