Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nowheres near par with the other sides of the language, the arrangements for courses in speaking are farcical, tending to discourage the students. The three half courses, for only one of which is credit given, are the minimum the Department thinks it can establish without starting an open revolt. Professor Packard has built the nucleus of an adequate series of courses, and what is now needed is official sympathy and recognition by University Hall of the potentialities of the subject...
...they vote Republican in national elections. Senator Norris, who has never had a political organization at home, has generally a more powerful individual appeal. His insurgency and his opponent's anger nearly always make him a martyr. It began when he was deprived of all patronage for his revolt against Cannon (he still has none). His martyrdom has gone on year by year, with vituperative newspaper attacks and such follies as the regulars committed in 1930 when they tried to do him dirt by putting up a grocery clerk named George W. Norris to run against...
...Frangois II, she waited and watched; at his death she declared herself Regent for her second surviving son, 10-year-old Charles IX. Now she found that her family affairs were the parlous state of the nation. Bled nearly white by protracted wars, griped by religious dissension, rumbling with revolt, France was apparently tottering toward dissolution. "With all its normal resources mortgaged [the government] was reduced to a point at which it functioned for the sole benefit of the international financiers...
...book's subtitle (The Lost Revolution) gives Author Roeder's thesis: that the revolt of the Huguenots, though it ended in failure, "bred a revolutionary consciousness which matured for 200 years," ripened at last in the French Revolution...
...sitter's face before he put it on canvas. When he painted the three little daughters of George III playing in a garden, he was so slow and demanded so many sittings that the Princesses, their nursemaids, spaniels and a bright green parrot all broke into open revolt. Last week The Three Princesses was off its accustomed hook in Buckingham Palace and on the walls of the Manhattan Museum...