Word: rushes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...around him, swarming from the trees, comes a clan of the great apes. The vagabond sits in their midst, learning tricks that neither Burroughs nor his familiars of Brattle Street have ever dreamt of. And then, with an unrestrained and thoroughly natural chords of growls, the hairy beasts rush the demure observer, the Vagabond. He vanishes from their horrid grasp, to learn about them from a distance, when Professor Hooton, at ten in the Semitic Museum 1, delivers his lecture on "The Great Apes...
...begins to talk louder & louder, may end by erupting with other Frenchmen into unseemly acts. Last week 10,000 solid citizens from various parts of France, members of the National Federation of Taxpayers, met in Paris, clamored for Justice until suddenly, shouting "On to the Chamber!", they started a rush for the Chamber of Deputies, grappled with Paris police, had to be beaten back by ornate cavalry of the Garde Républicaine...
...Sprague, does not have to be invented. It is already at hand. Industrialists, aided by their Governments, have only to begin "Fordization of housing." If they throw sufficiently cheap houses on a suitably protected market, such action would release the vast purchasing power of myriads of people who would rush to buy houses today if the prices were not prohibitive...
News that Tsar Boris' devoutly Catholic mother-in-law, Queen Elena of Italy, was rushing to Sofia in her gilded baroque private car caused His Majesty to order a rush-baptism of the babe, Maria Louise, hastily performed in the Palace Chapel by Archbishop Stefan according to Bulgaria's Orthodox rite. Prince Cyril, the Tsar's Catholic brother, met Queen Elena at the frontier, convinced her that a Catholic baptism would have been impossible in view of Bulgarian public opinion. At the Sofia station Queen Elena embraced Tsar Boris, whatever she may think of him. In Rome...
Reflecting the uncertainty of the times in an eleventh-hour rush, some 32 odd men have now applied to the Business School for admission to its Extra Session, which begins on Monday, January 30, and continues until August 16. This sudden although somewhat anticipated last moment influx has definitely raised the number of applicants already accepted from 45 or 50 to at least 66, since some of the latest cases are now under consideration, and a few have been already rejected...