Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...being driven almost crazy!" cried distracted Tourist Manager John W. Brunk. "They rush in here, they telephone, they write letters and send telegrams. All they want is a chance to fight, they don't care on which side. They don't even know which side is which...
...Street subway at five o'clock, a mass of disgruntled humanity, annoyed and hot, but still hoping fully that the agony may not be too prolonged. The same stock argument may be advanced in defense of the Athletic Association. Why don't the students come early and avoid the rush? And the same answer is forthcoming--it is a simple case of human inertia...
...nation." President Hoover smiled. There was no Hoover-Coolidge hobnobbing. After the Legion speech he proceeded with traffic difficulty to the Hotel Statler where an adulant crowd hustled the President and Mrs. Hoover through the narrow lobby. In the turmoil four policemen gave the "bum's rush" to an officious fellow. He was O. L. Bodenheimer, National Commander of the Legion...
Immediately Opposition Leader Fethi Bey opened fiery attack on Prime Minister Ismet Pasha who, though of course retaining a majority in Parliament, at once resigned. There was talk that Fethi would be made Prime Minister-but the Victorious One did not rush to this extreme. Having heard that in real republics, during a real crisis the President "sends for and consults the leaders of the Opposition," Kemal sent for and consulted Fethi. Next day short, hard-eyed General Ismet, who must have spent a nervous night wondering whether the Glorious Ghazi intended to doublecross him, was summoned to the Presidential...
Harvard has not been exempt from the rush towards college since the war, and while scholastic standards have been steadily rising to hold back the mob at the door, this policy of exclusion has operated to the disadvantage of many men of low average intelligence but otherwise fully endowed with strong character, personality and other desirable traits. The University is beginning to hear complaints along this line from alumni who found no trouble in earning their gentleman's C's in the gay nineties but whose sons are in the process of flunking out or haven't even succeeded...