Word: quell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...basement and beat the hell out of him." Lino began frantically biting his captors' hands. A salesgirl fainted. Some 500 Negro customers, thrown into a panic by the commotion, began upsetting counters of goods, yelling, breaking things. An Irish policeman went in, saw he could not quell the hysterical confusion singlehanded, sent for emergency reserves. It was almost twilight before the police had driven the disturbers from the debris-strewn store...
Police were rushed to many theaters to quell fighting patrons, trying to destroy the films...
...course the horses will be used in any other disturbances that may arise in the normally peaceful town of Cambridge, but the primary purpose is to quell any uprising of the students. The whole affair started because of the water-throwing contest which went on in Plympton Street last Thursday evening. During the brawl some indignant townspeople were drenched by the torrents pouring out of the windows...
...hard to determine, but it has always happened that when the United States has started to climb out of a depression an outbreak of strikes has occurred. It happened in 1879 and again in the '90's and only the Government by the use of troops was able to quell the disturbances. The right to strike is sacred to workmen...
...small card in a mailbox in Converse Chemical Laboratory reads, "Please send Professor Conant's mail to University Hall." This should quell the anxiety of those who fear President Conant is letting the University go to pot while he sits in his laboratory in mystic contemplation of test-tubes...