Word: rampantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ensuing flood. Their six-vote victory over Repeal in a nominally Dry House was a portent of defeat in the coming Wet one. The Wets, on top for the first time as a result of the election, did not exult too loudly. Responsibility was sobering even the most rampant anti-Prohibitors...
...suite at the Senate Office Building he answered an average of 200 letters per day and began picking out the things he would take back to Topeka with him after March 4. The 6-ft. chair engraved "The Chief" would certainly go. So would the 2-ft. ebony elephant rampant and the framed collection of original newspaper cartoons (mostly friendly). Nor would he part with the composite photograph of the Senate in 1895 (that was his first term in the House) or the original Lincoln picture. Most of the books and the vice-presidential flag would probably have...
Obviously the sole parliamentary bulwark against so potent a pink & red front would be the Nazi brownshirts (largest party) supported by a coalition of the small, moderate centre parties and by Dr. Alfred Hugenberg's rampant Nationalists ?who in fact are Monarchists...
...feeling that voting a minority ticket is essentially futile, is this year only less rampant than in 1928, the campaign in which America succeeded beyond its farthest hopes in Making Every Vote Count. With a supreme gesture of condescension the Republican "Herald" comments editorially: "To vote for Thomas on November 8 is merely to make a gesture of futility. . . The practical effect will be equally nil, whether he gets as few votes as in 1928, or a million or two." Such arguments are common. The shabby logic on which they are based must he apparent even to the intelligent conservative...
Were it not for the sincerity rampant in every line of the oath, were it not for the palpable belief that only thus may students be persuaded of the need for serious work in college, the imposition would deserve every guffaw dispatched in its ill-fated direction. Against such sincerity there is small use to argue that undergraduates as well as faculty will recite the affirmation mechanically, with the slightest suggestion of a hypocritical smirk at the faculty of such rigamarole; it would be equally futile to maintain that if a college man is not already mature enough to appreciate...