Word: rampant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...CORDIALS" and "BEVERAGES" read a pair of brilliant orange signs above the shrieking-green bay windows of a shop that opened last week at No. 201 East 44th Street, Manhattan. A small device on the door showed the American eagle rampant, announced that the shop was guarded by the Supreme Protective System Co., ip East 23rd Street. Twinkling in the display windows, dazzling passersby, were bottles, arrogantly full...
...Russians suddenly raided and almost wrecked the office at Harbin, Manchuria of the new Soviet manager of the Chinese Eastern Railway, Comrade Rudy. Excited Moscow saw in this raid the "sinister" hands of Washington and Wall Street, the right hand perhaps not knowing what the left doeth. Isvestia in rampant rage called the U. S. "the imperialist leader of all the nations now arrayed against...
...government had abolished the right ("extraterritoriality") of foreigners in China to be tried in their own consular courts (TIME, Jan. 6). For 48 hours it seemed as though foreigners were going to be subjected along with Chinese to the gross and notorious malfeasance of Chinese courts where bribery is rampant, trial by jury unknown, and the local military commander often dictates the decision of the judge...
...therefore, think that you will agree that in spite of the fact that we, in North Dakota, who live West of the Mississippi River where some of our good neighbors in the East seem to think the climate unlivable, the 'wild jackasses run rampant,' where the buffaloes still eat our cabbages in our gardens and the Indians scalp our children on their way to school, nevertheless can raise high-class stock and grains of all kinds. . . . North Dakota is rapidly forging to the front as a highly diversified farming State...