Word: rampant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Little boxes of ice cream were handed to them and they stood around eating it like men dreaming. Someone lowered the Stars & Stripes; someone else pulled a blue ensign up at the bow. But no one touched the ship's accomplishment flag on the periscope-a dodo bird rampant on a black field, with eleven little Jap flags sewn on the margin. At the bottom of the flag were the words: "so SOLLY...
Cooperation and team work are the basic foundations of an Army, Jealousy among women is no small item and in lots of cases is rampant. Get a crowd of females together and sooner or later something pops. One thing leads to another and there is a gnashing of teeth, ripping of straps and unsetting of permanent waves, although the last possibility seems a trifle unlikely, depending upon what provision a female soldier's budget makes for trips to the post Helena Rubenstein or Zotos salon...
Although rumors so sabotage were not yet confirmed and elusive members of WLP could not be found for statement, widespread feeling was rampant at the Network that the newly founded station was responsible for the unfortunate silence. In the belief that the suspicions of his staff would seen be proved true Robert S. Kieve '43, president of the Network, last night cast down the gauntlet to the usurpers of Harvard radio peace. "We are now making plans to wipe WLP completely off the face of the dial," he thundered...
Sugar rationing may well cut down "the rampant decay of American teeth," writes Research Dentist Thomas J. Hill of Western Reserve University in Dentistry. Decay of teeth, says Hill, is a product of civilization. It increases with a people's standard of living and is almost unknown among the few isolated and primitive races on the fringes of civilization. At the end of the Civil War the average American ate only 31 Ib. of sugar yearly. By World War I consumption had risen to 85 Ib. Last year it was 114 Ib. The average American, says Hill, today...
According to Hansen, all the countries in this war have planned their financing better than in the past. In other words, less inflation has been rampant. For example, the United States at this time in the last war was the victim of great inflation, but the condition today is not so serious...