Word: hubbub
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...Room 3 in the basement of University Hall used to be the nearest thing to bedlam that Harvard had to offer. Freshmen and upperclassmen in anxiety over the rooming situation for the following year or rushing in with last minute selection of courses met in one swirling tide of hubbub...
...facts behind this Blum cabinet hubbub were that in Algiers a Jew who had confessed to murdering an Arab was lynched by a mob of 300 Arabs. In Gafsa, Tunisia, 2,000 Arabs rampaged through the Jewish quarter, wrecking homes and shops, seriously wounding one Senegalese policeman, and in some streets raising cries of "Vive Hitler...
...country has been placed in other pockets. No Senator gave longer and more loving thought to the Constitution and its preservation as a source of righteous power. Yet during the last three years of New Deal tinkering, Senator Borah's voice has rarely risen above the Washington hubbub in constitutional warning or criticism. After he had helped to keep the U. S. out of the League of Nations, world governments learned that the ursine Senator from Idaho was a potent person to be reckoned with in their dealings with the U. S., that, as Chairman of the Senate Foreign...
...continued for six successive afternoons, except for intermittent rain. It was bearable at most, but Saturday things took a turn for the worse. The children came out with a brand new idea--night maneuvers. Dunster has always prided itself in its distance from the hubbub and turmoil of Harvard Square or Bolyston Street, but alas and alackaday, those quiet days and silent nights are gone forever. Solemnly advised an Aentry man: "Freshman, pick your House with a cinder path or a nice brick walk...
...Harvard Hall. Russia is getting a jump on the world. Look at your globe. It is shorter to fly over the North Pole from Moscow to San Francisco than to follow the old paths. In June a Soviet plane will try that route. Grim, nevertheless Stalin is raising a hubbub among the international lawyers the world over; for what does the Soviet Government do but claim even the pack ice all the way to the North Pole! Ah, the bit in the teeth; the jump at the starting post in the race for the Arctic! For pack ice is good...