Word: rampant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cities of Nanking, Kaifeng, Suchow, Chinkiang, Canton, Soochow, Hangchow, Hankow and Tsinan. The cities' pre-war combined population of 5,800,000 had shrunk, they said, to 2,400,000. The Chinese puppet administrations were "weak, inefficient and corrupt," business was depressed, there was widespread unemployment, prostitution was rampant and narcotics were sold openly under Japanese auspices. Their conclusion: "The whole former trend of constructive development has been shattered, and devastation, chaos and oppression brought in a regime which has yet to manifest any significantly constructive influence...
...last 25 years tuberculosis has been beaten down from first to seventh place on the list of U. S. killers. Although doctors know all about the cause, a great deal about the cure of T. B., it is not yet conquered and still runs rampant in the slums of crowded cities. Hardest hit by the white plague is the black population, which loses annually about five citizens out of every 2,000 (general U. S. average: one out of every...
Heartened by a favorable pre-game prognostication, the CRIMSON nine yesterday wound up a lengthy training session with plenty of spirits. Confidence was rampant in the palatial Plympton Street fieldhouse. "I know we can!" shrieked the team in unison...
Heavy snow was falling in Madrid early this week. The city was without fuel, disease was rampant, 1,000,000 Madrileños were half-starved. No restaurant served meals, no bars had drinks. Lentils and dried beans were all anyone could get to eat, and precious little of them. A daily average of 2,000 were reported dying of hunger and sickness. Communications with Valencia, Alicante, Cartagena- warmer cities on the coast-had broken down. No railroad trains ran for there was no coal. No buses moved, for the gasoline supply had given out. Order, direction, organization had broken...
...still more strongly against the West. In the first place, it is unfortunate but true that there is a great lack of man power of Supreme Court caliber in the West. Although there are numerous sound conservative possibilities, it is, of courts, inconceivable that anyone but a fairly rampant liberal would get the call from the White House...