Word: louder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...likes to think its educational system as good as any in the world. That doesn't mean that the U.S. is satisfied with it. Recently, educators have been insisting, louder & louder, that it isn't anywhere near good enough. What's wrong with it? Seventeen months ago, Harry Truman appointed a commission of 28 clergymen, educators, businessmen, and editors to find out. Last week the commission, headed by the American Council on Education's President George Zook,* published the first two volumes of a six-volume report...
...senatorial colleague shrugged off Taft's almost daily shots from the hip by remarking: "Oh, well, he's running for President." Other Republican Senators were not so complacent; their complaints that Taft was misrepresenting his party grew louder & louder...
Back of the theory of the cheering section lies a deep-rooted feeling that Harvard men deserve better seats than visiting females, and that anyone preferring to sit a girl should share the misery of her view of the game. Arguments that an all-male section cheers louder or presents a solid, threatening front to the opposition are also frequently used...
...with people hanging from every outcropping. At the foot, President Miguel Aleman stepped forward to lay a wreath. Then, one by one, cadet delegations from 16 hemisphere countries marched into the little enclosure, saluted, marched out. There was applause for the Brazilians, the Argentines, the Colombians. Then applause grew louder. It became a roar. High on the cliffside, men shouted "Hi! Hi! Hi!" It had been no mistake after all. Next to cadets from their own Colegio Militar, Mexicans had given the five white-uniformed West Pointers the biggest hand...
...summer it was perfectly natural, but in the fall something ought to be done about it. A raffle at the end of one of the football games. Perhaps one of the smaller, early affairs, which would not attract a crowd otherwise. Everyone would get out there and cheer louder than he ever had before, because of the approaching excitement; that was pretty good, and Vag walked jauntily: soon they'd call him Machiavel Vag. He could see the crowd shouting, Harvard men shouting, for in his mind they would have the cherished prize of...of.., sure, Memorial Hall. Mem Hall...