Word: loudest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Offer Prizes for the Best Cough and the Loudest Handkerchief Operations. The main reading room and Lower Widener are practically the best sort of proving grounds for those coughs which are above normal strength. In those rooms, everyone else tries to be quiet. That is the psychological moment to test out a rippling, rolling, resounding cough or a crackling, recalcitrant nose...
...becoming natural for every sort of interest when in difficulty to turn to the government for a solution. The finger of paternalism extended far more readily at present than even fifty years ago is being clutched eagerly, almost feverishly, by the very private interests whose cry was loudest for personal freedom a century ago. The difference is in the changed conditions of life; the demand for big things done on a big scale, and the eye-opening effect of the war upon methods of government cooperation in industry. Public opinion is as powerfully behind government intervention...
...become reconciled to the lecture system and the taking of notes. Some feel that Harvard men are given the preference. Then there is the old cry: "Now, at Columbia,--or the University of Chicago,--or Siwash College",--or where not. And I have always found that the loudest "laudatores collogli acti" and those who protest against Harvard injustice are Scholarship-holders. A fitting subject for a fable. F. M. CAREY '20, 3G. November...
...unfortunately true before the war that the percentage of students interested in public affairs was low in nearly all colleges and that more often than not the element that talked loudest and therefore got control of college political or international clubs was the least representative...