Word: roar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...youthful enthusiasm for largescale reform, they exert a potent, if nonpolitical, influence in shaping the whole character of the Roosevelt Administration. Political Washington has never seen their like before, and last week political Washington suddenly held its breath because of them-hardly knowing whether to quake with fear or roar with merriment. Before a House Committee hearing on the Stock Exchange Control bill, a measure drafted by the Administration's brilliant young legalites, appeared James H. Rand Jr. (Remington-Rand), chairman of the Committee for the Nation. Mr. Rand's Committee, which was all in favor of devaluating...
...outside the plant a crowd of 4,000 had gathered. At 8:30 on the pouring floor quiet, pious Dr. George Vest McCauley, the company's physicist in charge of operations, and genial Dr. John C. Hostetter, director of research, saw that everything was ready. In the deafening roar of gas blowers in the furnace and ventilating blowers cooling the factory Dr. McCauley could not make himself heard. He signaled his orders with his arm. A workman sprang to a windlass operating one of the furnace doors. Eight others manned the 20-ft. handle of a big ladle, hanging...
...with 40 victories to 34, Oxford still seemed to have an uncatchable lead, in a. century of racing over the muddy 4 ¼ miles on the winding Thames from Putney to Mortlake. But for the last ten years, endless to Oxonians, the motley millions who roar from the banks of the river and from the big brewery windows, the tumultuous holiday crowd of picnickers, cheap-jacks, street musicians and acrobats have cheered "Caa-a-am-bridge!" as the light blue's eight-legged scorpion came skating over the water in a series of monotonous victories. This spring with...
...Parried questions about the ethics of his own companies with: "I have not the legal background to make comment on that." 7) Advised separation of manufacturers and operators. 8 ) Called U. S. military and commercial aviation the best in the world. When Col. Lindbergh finally rose in a roar of applause, policemen shielded him from a surging wave of would-be handshakers. Newshawks scrambled for typewriters and telephones to describe what some of them considered the best show in Washington since President Roosevelt's inauguration. Col. Lindbergh was succeeded on the witness stand by the thin-haired flyer...
...town drunkard; the man who could find no peace & quiet in his quarrelsome house, took his evening paper out in the graveyard to read; the sweet Alice who was known as "the Roarer and Greeter," not because she was hospitable but because anything out-of-the-way made her roar and greet (howl and cry); the town villain's tale of Robbie Burns's entry into heaven...