Word: roar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Today, however, those who placed their confidence in us are reassured. For the tumult and the shouting have broken forth anew-and from substantially the same elements of opposition. This new roar is the best evidence in the world that we have begun to keep our promises, that we have begun to move against conditions under which one-third of the nation is still ill-nourished, ill-clad, ill-housed...
...post: "The . . . track was so crowded there almost wasn't room enough for the horses. . . ." At the post, it took three and a half minutes to get the field of 18 in line. Then, in a sudden hush, the line began to move and the crowd to roar. What happened in the most important instant of the race was best recorded, not by a reporter, but by the $50,000 electric camera at the finish. It clicked when Mrs. C. S. Howard's Seabiscuit, who had led the field coming into the stretch, and William du Pont...
...those of the President. The people whom he tried to aid in the A.A.A. and the Guffey Coal Bill and the N.R.A. will not respond to violent denunciations of the law; they will rise up and vote for sounder and better-drafted measures. Likewise is it futile to roar "Communism" and "Fascism" when additions to the Supreme Court are mentioned. An effective opposition must prove to the public that the broad interpretation of the Constitution is not needed as quickly as the President thinks. In his own metaphor, revolution is farther off from his term than Sumter was from President...
...occasion Roar Admiral Gherardi and Captains Nelson, Soule and Amsden of the Naval Reserve were present, as well as large visiting committee of prominent delegates, including Jerome D. Greene '96, Secretary to the Corporation, George D. Birkhoff '05, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Henry Chauncey '28, Assistant Dean of the College, and Arthur Adams '99, Charles P. Curtis '14, Richard S. Russell '01, and Theodore L. Storer '18, members of the Committee on Military Science and Tactics...
...Clemente Island, took his ramrod to seat a shell in the breech of a 5-in. gun which was participating in a barrage to cover a landing party of Marines. The gunner's thrust was his last. As he shoved home the shell, up with a roar went the breech in a great red flare of flame and blood against the blue. "I saw one boy sort of drift past me," recounted a survivor, "floating through the air, half of his head shot off, and land on the deck. It was awful...