Word: rampant
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Time and the Hour," the new Boston weekly, shows that the miniature magaazine fad is still rampant. The little paper is a purely local affair with a considerable amount of purpose, if one may judge from the first number. Taverner, late of the Boston Post, is assisted by a Booktaster, a Story-teller, a Gossip, a Reformer, a Playgoer, and a Diletante. Beside these regular departments, Number One contains an article by Margaret Deland and poems by Louise Chandler Moulton and Marguerite Merington...
...means a criticism of our government's position; it said nothing at all about the merits of the question. "We assert," it says, "that it is a duty entailed upon us as citizens of the United States to do everything in our power to oppose the war spirit so rampant now." Now if Mr. Warner or any other man can show us that the stand taken by the United States on this question is wrong he ought to do so and thus prove Mr. Roosevelt to be wrong. The trouble is that he fights shy of the main question...
...seems to us a menace to the welfare of our country and to her high stand among the civilized nations. We assert that it is a duty entailed on us as citizens of the United States to do every thing in our power to oppose the war-spirit so rampant now. We therefore suggest that every member of the University, whether student or professor, write a personal letter to the senators of his state and the representative of his district, deprecating the warlike policy indicated in the President's Message...
Enthusiasm of the wildest and most rampant kind pervaded Yale at the close of the first debate ever won from Harvard. Of course it was a freshman class affair - but '98 has done herself proud by the real service which its representatives have rendered to Yale - in vanquishing the speakers from Harvard, eloquent and finished though they were. It is believed now that the tide in Yale debating has been turned, and a return to the old days of the Linonian and Brothers societies is not far off. The sophomores this evening conferred a unique honor upon the three Yale...
...yard lines were passed. 7 minutes more remained to play. Could we make a touch-down? Off-side play gave Harvard 5 yards more and the Crimson was rampant. Right straight through the centre they went again. Now the ball was on the 25 yard line and for the first time a rush was unsuccessful...