Word: louder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gets up to speak at a general meeting of shareholders. Catcalls, hoots, hisses. Shouts of 'Sit down!' . . . 'Take a Vacation!' . . He stands at the foot of the table, brown as wood. 'Gentlemen. . . .' His voice is so faint that they can hardly hear. 'Louder, louder!' And then he does it, makes his last bid and gets across. . . . Splendid stuff for the second...
Ecuador. For 18 hours ink-black clouds deluged Oro Province. Moment by moment the Jubones River roared louder. Frightened Ecuadorians sought shelter in their homes. At last, the river overflowed, drowned 50 persons, caused $2,000,000 property damage...
...right wing of the German government has never trusted the Parliamentary system very much and has hoped to cut down on the powers of Parliament and to increase the powers of the President and the state officials. It is natural that times of emergency should make louder and more general the call for a dictator. The acuteness of the prolonged economic crisis has made even many a Chamber of Commerce and farmer organization call for a wirtschaftdietatur. It is in the agricultural and business fields that the need for a dictator is most pressing...
...make a living. For him this is the basic fact. He sees the rest of the community benefited by the tariff, but the tariff does him no good because he has a surplus to sell abroad. What is he going to do about it? He asks in a louder and louder voice for price fixing?and Congress takes...
Since 1923, when he buzzed angrily out of New England, Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn, bumblebee of U. S. pedagogy, has circled uncertainly about over the educational field, shooting off for a space to Europe, returning to circle some more, with a louder buzz about an "independent college" to be founded for three millions with the aid of friends (TIME, June 25, 1923 et seq; Sept. 15, 1924). At one point, the students of Knox College informally extended a bouquet to the buzzing one, in the shape of their presidential chair (TIME, Dec. 29), but the circling continued, not only because...