Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...larger than himself, was thrown out of the schoolhouse. Home he went, not to mother but to get one of mother's guns. Armed with a .22 calibre target pistol, he returned to school muttering threats and waving his gun. Schoolteacher Mitchell made no effort to stop the rush for the door, was glad when all his charges were safely out. prudently retreated himself. Chris, found some hours later at his home by the sheriff, surrendered his gun, which he said had not been loaded...
...install benches for as many as thirty weary students, but also space in the rear half for the files, shelves and other paraphernalia necessary for the operation of the delivery system. Such a remodeling would have many beneficial results: a larger delivery desk would speed up operations during rush hours; moving the delivery desk nearer the stacks would permit an additional increase in speed; students would have a great deal more space to sit down, which would decrease the confusion now prevalent in active periods; and finally, the center of activity would be moved away from the reference desks, thereby...
...Vagabond was glad he was sitting next to a window when they announced the lecture had been moved to New Lecture Hall. He didn't mind getting his feet wet in the drifts under that window. He didn't mind the jostle in the rush past Memorial Hall. He was going to hear Robert Frost, and his mind ran back to that night several winters ago when it had last heard him. Mr. Frost had packed the New Lecture Hall full then, too, even with a northeast gale howling outside--the kind of a day they wouldn...
Just two years ago, speaking at Buenos Aires, Franklin Roosevelt said that employment given by rearmament work (which Germany was then rushing, England beginning to rush) was "false employment, it builds no permanent structure and creates no consumers' goods for the maintenance of a lasting prosperity. We know that nations guilty of these follies inevitably face the day either when their weapons of destruction must be used against their neighbors or when an unsound economy, like a house of cards, will fall apart." To get as much virtue as he could out of his new necessity, Mr. Roosevelt last...
...area is only a little distance inland from Junean, the capital of the great northwestern territory, yet until the coming of aviation an a means of geographic exploration it moved only as the grave yard for many a lost prospector in the old gold rush days...