Word: rampantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the beginning of the present conflict, writer have encouraged us to pity Japan because its civil government had no control over the rampant militant party. Generals near Mukden paid no heed to peace-loving officials at Tokyo. Now we shall see whether the sentiments of the people really are more civilized than those of their warlorda...
That the Wartime Secretary of the Treasury, irked with the law, has been getting more and more political has been fairly obvious for some time. A rampant Dry out of step with the dominant eastern wing of his party, he has, it is said, reconciled himself to the fact that he has no chance for the Presidency. Late last year he published his autobiography (Crowded Years) which contained some political explosives and, in telling the story of an unparalleled career, again attracted attention to the almost forgotten name of McAdoo. Then last month the students of Southern Methodist University...
...which time the whole political scene can and may change. Two major things may occur to improve President Hoover's chances of success: i) a turn for the better in the economic tide, with rising prices and increased trade, which would substantially dampen the "protest vote" now rampant; 2) Democratic blunders in managing the next House (see p. 12), followed by another Wet & Dry schism after the Democratic nomination...
...existence of a basis of fact for the assertion of Professor Rogers of M. I. T. in the University Club News that extra-curricular activities no longer play so important a part in undergraduate life as they formerly did scarcely invites rebuttal. The activity mania, rampant not so many years ago, seems to have subsided with all the suddenness common to excesses, along with hazing and other manifestations of misdirected energy in the youthful. The increasing maturity of outlook of the student has taken from activities much of their previous exaggerated appeal, and placed them in their true perspective. When...
...While all these rumors of wage reductions are rampant there isn't a chance of buying power creeping out from under the bed."?Gilbert Tennent Hodges, oldtime New York SMI man, past president of the Federation who was elected again last week...