Word: roar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the crowd, a roar: "Pour it on him, Senator...
...Eastbound from Missoula, a huge Northern Pacific freight locomotive, with 75 cars behind and a hundred hoboes riding, blew up in Hell Gate Canyon with the mightiest roar Montana has heard since Paul Bunyan passed by. Dead when help came were the engineer, the fireman, the brakeman, two hoboes. So shattered was the engine that railway officials despaired of determining just what had happened. But in the Northern Pacific offices at Philadelphia, 2,000 miles away, there had lain for weeks a document containing a fantastically possible answer: two typewritten pages reporting a conversation overheard on the Camden-Philadelphia ferry...
...current academic year draws to a close, one of the most important bits of unfinished business, from the undergraduate point of view, is the matter of House admissions. The well-justified roar of protest against a condition which makes necessary more than three hundred disappointed applicants, has elicited from Dean Hanford a promise that future Freshman classes will be reduced; but the temporary expedient of associate House memberships was discarded, and for the next few years the problem, apparently, will remain unsolved...
...strains of "Up the Street" were swelling across to the Memorial Church when the cloudburst struck with a rush and roar that sent the gaily-dressed listeners scurrying for the nearest cover...
...make a spectacle of himself-not in front, but trailing behind (in next to last place in the field of nine), ten lengths in back of the leaders, Menow and Fighting Fox. Gloom settled over the stands. Even stretch-running Dauber could never make up that distance. Suddenly a roar went up. "Look at Dauber!" The Du Pont colt had suddenly started to flash past the horses in front of him as though they were telegraph poles. He overtook them one by one, splashing mud in their blinkered faces, finished seven lengths in front of the tired crop of three...