Word: rushes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fascist Party itself, Mussolini fears strong opposition, because the revolutionary party ranks were watered by a rush of Fascisti who wanted to hold office. These men would probably do anything to get and retain power...
...numbered nearly 2,000 and became threatening. Solicitor General Hartridge, from the steps of the jail, ordered the crowd to disperse, declaring that the authorities were determined to protect the prisoner. The crowd grumbled and remained. The police were powerless to disperse it. The crowd appeared ready to rush the jail. Sheriff Dixon, revolver in hand, commanded firemen to turn their hoses into the mob. Half a dozen streams of water shot out. The crowd returned fire with bricks. A stone knocked the pistol from the sheriff's hand...
...chief silver producing states of this country. Senator Tasker L. Oddie (Republican) and State Hughes uses, or rather misuses, Senator Key Pittman (Democrat) are the men. Both have been engaged in the mining business at one time or another. At the age of 25 Key Pittman joined the gold rush to Alaska and worked for two years as a common miner. Later he became the first district attorney of Nome. He returned to the United States proper, and settled in Tonopah, Nev., one of the Nevada silver and gold mining cities. In 1912 he was elected to the Senate. There...
...success of the play?then the whistle Wows and you all crowd in and try to grab the nearest available seat to the barrier that cages the pit-devotees away from the swells in the stalls. Thus, if you don't get your eye gouged out in the rush, you obtain what would be in I New York a $2.75 orchestra seat for a good deal less. The pit need present no complexity if you are in fit form to fight...
...hostility to Dr. Atwood's methods. And a great deal can doubtless be said for the specialization of various universities. There is no reason why all colleges and universities should be cut to the same pattern. On the contrary educational institutions are chiefly valuable for their singularities. The rush to turn colleges into universities and to duplicate in each university the work of the next has not justified itself in the East and there is no reason to suppose that it will be more successful in the West...