Word: sparkly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cambridge's mayoral processions touched off the smouldering spark at 8 o'clock last night, with a mob of about twenty Freshmen gathering to cheer and later to yell 'Rinehart." While Yard cops searched nooks and crannies of the Yard for the missing Colonel, the riot grew to Gargantuan proportions, practically doubling its original number of recruits. Only heroic action by the Yard's defenders broke the back of the rebellion...
...government policies. . . . If confidence were restored in the securities of Liberty we should move forward irresistibly." Though he does not believe that revolution has yet "swept the United States . . . there are some who are trying to bring it about." With real, unconsciously revolutionary passion he prophesies: "The spark of liberty in the mind and spirit of man cannot be long extinguished; it will break into flames that will destroy every coercion which seeks to limit...
...Colgate's George Barton Cutten: Will it be rugged individualism or ragged collectivism? . . . We've taken better care of the idiot than we have of the genius. We have coddled the moron and starved the intelligent. Those with the divine spark we have neglected, while we've lavished money and training upon the pinheads. . . . Social legislation begs the unfit to become more unfit and cordially invites the fit to stop the struggle and vegetate...
...started when a spark from a nearby chimney lit on the roof of the Golden Gate Hotel. A 34-mi. wind puffed the flames through every room. From the Golden Gate Hotel the fire spread rapidly to the business section on Front Street. Up went the offices of the Nome Nugget, up went the airplane office, saloons, poolrooms, garages, almost every business place in town. By nightfall every building in Nome was in ruins except the Government wireless station, which sent out the bad news, one hotel, a hospital and Lomen Commercial Co.'s north side warehouse. The winter...
...Seniors who have now left our sacred shores for more distant climes; and the numbers of men whose feelings and interests allowed them time and ability to run such an organization seemed definitely limited. It seemed to be felt that the extremely liberal minds of Harvard, who had some spark, had disappeared taking with them the solution to the problem of the Critic. But now indeed at last has come a group who boast that, despite their anti-communistic leanings, they can put out the Critic in a style to which it has never before been accustomed. They...