Word: rampant
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Austrian and fought three months against Russia, being honorably discharged after wounded in defence of his country, is a genius of high calibre. His mastery of the violin places him among the first players of modern times, and no one has a right, even under the guise of rampant patriotism, to prevent people enjoying the pleasure of hearing...
...their essential wisdom and justice. In one sense the cause of any individual college, or even of a group of colleges, is undoubtedly an individual or a group interest. But these are perilous days, in which little is apparent in the public prints beyond brute passions and rampant selfishness. The World may well linger over every manifestation of the more human forces in civilization. --New York Times...
...speaking, two magazines, each boasting the same highly cacophonous and widely copyrighted title. Wednesday's red polemic entitled "The Harvard Magazine" is being followed this morning by a collegiate Collier's of the identical title. The original offering with its motto "Luceat ad Nauseam" surmounted by three niger apes, rampant, proves to be an exceedingly clever parody on the true Magazine which appears in a cover of virgin purity and purports to be "everyone's" (including Radcliffe's) paper...
Harvard is not democratic. It has not been for generations, and does not bid to change for generations yet to come. What is more, it makes no pretenses at democracy. The Freshman Dormitories, designed to combat the rampant spirit of caste, has done no small amount of good, but they have failed to establish any democracy--within even a single class. Harvard alumni winced at the publication of Mr. Flandrau's book, "Harvard Episodes," but they knew is substance to be true...
...Republicans may argue against Democrats for the continuance of a high protective tariff and justify themselves on the ground that they are upholding party principles. The serious questions before our country today should provoke intelligent discussion on an entirely opposite basis. The intense feeling of political antagonism that was rampant last fall ought to be non-existent now, when instead of the magnified aims of a particular faction being in the balance, the cherished honor and rights of the whole nation are at stake. Political affiliations and party differences should be forgotten, and every Democrat, Republican, Socialist and Prohibitionist should...