Word: rampant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...making books less like books, but by making people more like readers, must the change be effected. The plan behind the People's Library is as blind to the causes of the situation its sponsors are trying to cure as the people are at Harvard who complain about the rampant tutoring schools without realizing that the way to remedy that evil is to lift Harvard education above the level where the tutoring schools can prepare the students more efficiently for examinations than the Faculty...
Correct. But how did these cities get back to Finnish names? After the conclusion of World War I, the spirit of nationalism, inspired by Wilson's famed Fourteen points, became rampant. The ancient Finnish names were restored. Helsingfors became Helsinki. Viborg became Wipuri and so on down the list...