Word: rampantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Oats were up from a low this year of 25? per bu. to 40? barley from 36? to 65? rye from 50? to 76?. On the Chicago Board of Trade, grains frequently jumped the full day's limit long before the close of trading, and speculation became so rampant that conservative commission houses forehandedly raised their margin requirements...
Real battle of the Atlantic City convention was over Peace. Many a delegate, including China's Chengting T. Wang, spoke eloquently upon the ill will rampant in the world today. But when the Rotary Club of Barking, England proposed to put the united shoulder of Rotary International behind the wheel of Peace, the convention split. Cried Rotarian Cyril Franklin, a Briton from Hereford: "If Rotary wants to leave its past policy of inspiring individual Rotarians to active support of outside peace movements, we will be playing with fire. If Rotary splits into parties with national points of view, what...
...Committee on Freedom of the Press, under the guidance of rampant, liberty-loving Publisher Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick of the Chicago Tribune, labored long & noisily to bring forth four thundering resolutions...
...rampant rivers tossed off their bridges, gulped in railway roadbeds, swamped highways, transportation throughout the region was practically at a standstill. Railroads canceled many a train, sent others chugging cautiously over competitors' tracks. Hardest hit was the Pennsylvania, whose four-track main line cuts through the heart of the Alleghenies. Pennsylvania canceled all service on its own tracks west of Lancaster, Pa. The last break, near Altoona, Pa., was not repaired and through service resumed until three days later. B. & O. stopped all trains west of Washington...
...programs are wretchedly enough controlled to warrant a general budget-housecleaning; but it is the countless number of petty outlets for corrupt spending that really bleed the taxpayers dry. The cool and straightforward way in which their representatives who drew up the report have ferreted out and condemned these rampant evils, shows that there exists in this state, at least, a strong public determination to clean up a particularly harmful form of graft. Legislators will have to give ear to this growing voice of discontent, for, like William Lloyd Garrison, "it will be heard...