Word: mell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chinese started looting and burning indiscriminately, Admiral Shen adopted the desperate expedient of having signs put up directing prospective looters to Japanese premises, in the hope that they would spare others. Finally the Admiral fled pell-mell with Tsingtao's Chinese police...
...change in its attitude towards labor is needed by the University. It must recognize that it is expected to be a leader in solving the troubles of labor, though this does not mean pell-mell acceptance of the closed shop until labor is prepared for that move. It must recognize that a passive attitude of accepting what other people do is not worthy of Harvard or likely to solve the greatest industrial problem of the present. For example, Harvard should have been one of the first to work out an Old Age Pension Plan instead of being...
...hillside with Oregon State's vivid orange. The procession tooted on to University of Oregon's campus. With the exception of a stubborn professor who continued to lecture to his class on the French Revolution, most Oregonian faculty and students had rushed pell-mell from their classes to repulse the invaders. At the law school an Oregonian turned a fire hose on the Staters. In Eleventh Street, a State car stalled. One of its occupants began to throw ears of corn at the Oregonians. In a flash the Oregonians hauled him and his three companions...
...trailer outlined against the dark foliage of trees, began to move. Almost imperceptibly, then faster, it rolled towards the lake below. Suddenly light shone brightly from the door of the trailer. The figure of a matronly woman appeared, sprang into the night. A tall, broad-shoulered man followed. Pell-mell down the dark hill they ran beside the rolling caravan. Then the woman jumped for the running board of the car to pull its brakes. She slipped, fell, lay groaning, while her distracted companion rushed to her side. The car rolled on, crunched solidly into a tree on the brink...
...pace was accelerated until he was clear of his well-wishers. Sudden rain, after the tea was half over, sent the King scurrying to the Palace for cover. At this the 5,000 Canadians, not knowing that English folk in similar circumstances usually take shelter under trees, dashed pell-mell after him into Buckingham where one astounded Palace flunky in scarlet & gold was heard to say to another, "It's like the bloody Revolution!" When skies cleared King Edward appeared on a balcony to speed the 5,000 parting guests with one of his most felicitous impromptu speeches...