Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...then, you say, did they revolt? Because they were practically bribed to revolt. Certain of the great western powers, appealing to the religious and nationalistic sentiments of the people, offered to the Armenians the flower of Liberty, Independence, and certain Turkish territories. They revolted, Practically the same offer was made to the people of Mesopotamia--what have they now? Almost 100,000 British in their country. We pity them. The same thing happened to the Syrians. Instead of the promised liberty and so forth, they have a host of Frenchmen. It is Lloyd George's imperialistic policies that are responsible...
...Capetown cable must certainly have carried to London the significance of this revolt. Perhaps the knights and baronets and others of the beribboned bosom will feel a slight, well-hidden blush at their kinship with less civilized but just as happy cousins of the Bush...
...indifferents" might justly revolt against the introduction of collegiate barbarisms, but the issue is not of changing the cheer, but of securing a maximum of volume and rhythm in the present cheer. A system of competition is to be established. But the crowd at a game is singularly averse to experiments in cheering, since vocal enthusiasm is only a by-product of interest in the game; and "chamber-expositions" of cheering are hardly a satisfactory test of merit in the field. Any group of vigorous and agile young men, who attack the problem with sufficient intelligence, numbers, and zest...
Professor Lowes, who took the degree of A.M. in 1903 and Ph.D. in 1905 at the University has degrees from Washington and Jefferson and from the universities of Leipzig and Berlin. As an author, he is known by his "Convention and Revolt in Poetry" and by his contributions to American and foreign philological and literary journals...
...past year saw the Republic of Honduras twice in revolt against its Government (TIME, Feb. 11 et seq., Aug. 11 et seq.). Bloody ructions occurred; the U. S., in February, severed diplomatic relations in accordance with its policy of frowning upon Latin-American revolts...