Word: rage
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...next plunged into telling Germans how "278,000 men are now working to fortify our western frontier which will be ready before winter!" Having thus suggested that Germany is not yet quite ready to fight, Der Führer swung into a threatening conclusion in which he vented his rage at President Benes' offer of 700,000,000 koruny as a pacifier to the Sudeten Germans...
Last year, when Duke University's Dr. Joseph Banks Rhine published his telepathy theories, "ExtraSensory Perception" (ESP) became the brief rage of women's clubs all over the U. S. Commander Eugene Francis McDonald Jr., energetic president of Zenith Radio Corp. and long a believer in thought transference, saw a chance to prove his belief in a big way by putting ESP on the air. Zenith sponsored network radio experiments in the Rhine technique, put the tests in the scientific hands of Northwestern University's Psychologists Drs. Louis Deal Goodfellow and Robert Harvey Gault...
...group of dispossessed peons standing abjectly in the road. The peons explained to the President that they were squatters who had refused to be dispossessed until finally the landlord's men had burned them out of their shacks. Said Lázaro Cárdenas in a cold rage to his host: "Don't you know that it is the duty of the rich and fortunate to help the poor? Are you not ashamed to burn the houses of a few poor peons because they want a little piece of land? Don't you know that...
...Rage of Paris (Danielle Darrieux, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.; TIME, July...
...left it - 13½ to 15½ in. from the ground. But full skirts, ranging from a gentle flare for daytime to romantic yard age for evening, were common, and observers who have watched this trend develop for several seasons conceded that this autumn it would probably be the rage...