Word: knell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dispatches last week Sir Samuel's return to the National Government figured as of major import, most correspondents feeling that indirectly it sounded the knell of League Sanctions, some indulging in flat prophesy that, within some such period as two years, "Flying Sam" will have become successively first Chancellor of the Exchequer and then Prime Minister...
...reached its climax in: "Yes, but the ashes of the darling baby, victim of a fiend urged by greed of gain, and seeking pleasure, are mute witnesses of the Crime, while within every American's breast there is a beating of the heart, tolling the death-knell of every gangster, while the Stars and Stripes fly from every staff and masthead...
...participants in the minor sports whose knell has been sounded will go the sympathy of the College. Nevertheless these men should remember, first of all, that they form only four per cent of the student body and that they cost $125 per participant on a yearly basis. They should remember, secondly, that even if they are forced to abandon their sports, two courses remain open to them; the other sports or House athletics. If House athletics assume a more important position as appears probable, the Houses may at last achieve some individuality rather than social. In other words, opportunity...
There is no graver portent in American life today than the determined effort to create a 'red' scare and exercise a censorship over our colleges and universities. If this campaign of terrorism and hysteria should succeed it would sound the death knell of academic freedom everywhere. Censorship by government, such as ruined the German universities overnight, is dreadful enough, but censorship by an irresponsible press which stops to dishonesty, trickery, and deceit to achieve its ends and by self-appointed super-patriotic guardians is worse; for that means censorship, passion, and prejudice and the beginning of an academic lynch...
...become a definite minority of those engaged in industry. In view of these changes the Federation finally endorsed in its recent convention the idea of vertical unions for all the workers in each industry. This means more power to unionism in this country, but it may sound the death knell of the Federation unless it changes the tactics which it has employed in the past and adapts itself to the requirements of this new type of organization...