Word: roaring
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...uproar over the Donnell raw deal was surprisingly loud, but politicians were generally unworried. Reformers usually make enough noise to soothe their consciences. But the roar grew louder; finally the State Supreme Court ruled in Donnell's favor. The legislature subsided. The vote at the Republican primary in St. Louis the next month was surprisingly large, but that, of course, was because there were four candidates fighting for the nomination. The Democratic primary vote was small, but that, of course, was because the renomination of Mayor Dickmann was in the bag. The Republicans picked a good man-William...
...oversize bathroom fixtures this side of Bombay. Last week a rattletybang little streetcar jammed with Turks was just careening around a curve in front of the Pera Palace when a great belch of flame and smoke pushed out the whole first floor of the hotel with a crunching, grunting roar. Against the streetcar hurtled jagged slabs of plate-glass windows, splintered tables and chairs, and an avalanche of burst-open trunks and suitcases. Several Turks on the car were badly injured. Inside the now fiercely burning Pera Palace screaming chaos reigned. Cables flashed all over the world that a bomb...
...strike. Most of the strikes were little ones, some even insignificant. Of greater concern to observers than any struck plant was the touch-&-go situation at Lackawanna, N. Y., where the long rumble of C. I. O.'s struggle with Bethlehem Steel was gathering into a roar. C. I. O. steelworkers, asserting that 300 fellow employes had been locked out of a coke plant in a dispute over a wage increase, voted to call a general strike in protest. A walkout at Lackawanna would affect 14,000 men, tie up millions of dollars of defense orders...
...from the clang of trolleys and the roar of traffic, covered by a wilderness of dormitories lies the heart of Harvard, the Yard. Though trailblazer Daniel Boone might have been able to find his way in and out of this architectural forest, a city-bred Freshman picking his way between the forbidding Grays and the frowning Matthews, perhaps too shy to ask directions, finds the feat a tough one. For him the Yard is a bewildering maze. Many of the buildings have no nameplates...
...float past the judges' tower, and glide, arms whirling, into their midst in a perfect landing. His first jump measured 167 ft. In the gathering dusk he took off for his second. This lime he landed on one ski, nearly fell. When the span was measured, a mighty roar went up. Tokle had soared 180 ft., broken a record for the 13th time...