Word: outshout
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nature is proof against such hurts as the bombing of a central transmitter. Some standby Government transmitters have been built in remote country locations, and equipped with Diesel power units for use in case of bombed local power lines. One function of these new transmitters may be to outshout Germany's mighty, new 500-kilowatt station, pulled out of the Nazi hat two months ago by Joseph Goebbels at Oldenburg, near the Dutch border, 30 miles from the North...
...Midwest States where major political battles were heading toward a showdown last week, rank & file newsmen tossed away their press cards and got up on the stump. And in both cases they found themselves trying to outshout their own publishers...
...began loudly to lecture the publishers on the rights of Labor. When the ex-cavalryman had reached the height of his oratory, the ex-teamster roared between glittering teeth: "I do the shouting in this part of the country, General! You may outargue me but you can't outshout me in my own hills!" General Johnson subsided, departed muttering: "This is the first time I ever ran up against a newspaper oligarchy...
...University of California at Los Angeles 1,500 students gathered, in a vacant lot off the campus, watched pacifist speakers and antipacifist hog-callers try to outshout each other. A few miles away, at Los Angeles Junior College, 25 peace demonstrators mounted the library steps, started to harangue a few hundred followers. College officers first tried to drown them out by roaring into microphones of the campus public address system. Next Director Roscoe...
...farmers. After the campaign was under way Mr. Cox and Senator Bulkley jumped in with what they called "the choice of the Administration"?Representative Charles West. Three-cornered the battle waged, the most excited primary that Ohio has had in many a year?White and West trying to outshout each other in New Deal enthusiasm until even "Vic" Donahey repented his defection and piped a half-hearted...