Word: gamut
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seeing harrowing clouds of smoke wafted from the Berkshires, the evervigilant Boston American and Record flew to the resume of that Americanism in such appalling danger of being snuffed out forever on the lawns of Williamstown. The ludicrous antics of these self-appointed missionaries, who ran the gamut of fanaticism from an appeal to the local American Legion Post to whispered impeachments of President Tyler Dennett, brought an inevitable clash with a usually unconcerned student body...
...Gamut of Emotion
...function as reviewer to say which or what of these attitudes is good or bad. What fascinates me about them taken together is the incredible gamut of emotions which they run; I have the feeling that here is as good an occasion as any to get a composite picture of the undergraduate--or at any rate the Harvard undergraduate--of today. But the significant fact is that these diverse frames of mind can not possibly by any stretch of the imagination be combined into a coherent personality. If Mr. Bach is correct in asserting that "a social class has status...
RUNNING the gamut of emotions, from sleepiness to tigerishness, the varied facial expressions of battling athletes as they face their competitors are recorded by the lightning swiftness of the action camera. Caught unawares, these athletes had no time to assume the accepted ferocious expressions that are seen in the ordinary still photographs of collegiate athletes...
Soapboxer. Premier Wang's fine, sensitive and mobile face easily reflects a whole gamut of New Chinese emotions utterly strange to Old Chinese President Lin. Of the two, Premier Wang is by far the better educated by Western standards, but compared to President Lin, he makes the impression of a boy soapbox orator. This being the decade of glorified soapbox orators, supple extemporizers and disarming demagogs, China has in Mr. Wang a statesman several cuts above the accepted thing in an up-to-date Premier. For one thing, he not only obeys according to his lights the famed will...