Word: pent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vagabond has felt the restlessness of spring strong upon him of late. He has been but little in his pent house on Memorial. Instead the old fellow has wandered about the Yard renewing old friendships and peering about into the various nooks and crannies that are of interest in the University. It cam to him in the course of his peregrinations that there are many good things about that few under graduates seem to appreciate. Perhaps this is due to the press of scholasticism, perhaps to sheer mental disinterest, or perhaps to ignorance, which at Harvard may be construed...
Arizona's filibuster could not beat the Boulder Dam bill in the Senate. Its pleas for a veto were ignored. Last week's suit released all its pent-up legalistic fury against what it considers a rape of its sovereign rights and resources...
...meetings of courses frightened him to death. Now they merely bore him. So until the headliners of the Faculty have warmed over the dishes they are planned to serve, he will have to look around for other matitutinal diversion. For he is gradually learning to sleep nights in his pent-house room in Lowell House, although reflections on the tower above his head did bother him at first...
...clients to sell all their British stocks and buy stock of U. S. or colonial enterprises. No sentimentalist, he did not even palliate his statement in the manner of the Stock Exchange Gazette (London) which declared: "Hard times get the best out of individuals and out of nations. . . . The pent-up energies of this nation will not be restrained forever...
...began to rally against Mr. Hughes. Such assorted Democratic Senators as Virginia's Glass and South Carolina's Blease, Georgia's George and Washington's Dill joined the hue and cry. For three full days with crowded galleries, the Senate Chamber rumbled and roared with pent-up liberal resentment against judicial conservatism. Always the issue remained larger than Mr. Hughes' appointment...