Word: storms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...number of construction experts advanced the opinion that the Shenandoah was lost largely because one of her six engines, (a spare) had been removed to make room for additional radio equipment. It was contended that if this had not been done she could have escaped from the storm...
Much fun has been poked at the courses in winehusbandry and the like that are offered in the University of Illinois; and efforts of this same institution to purge the curriculum of everything that is of no practical value have been the objects of a storm of adverse criticism. In the meantime, the Harvard student has smiled in a most superior fashion and congratulated himself and his friends upon the absence of any similar foolishness within his own academic domain. Harvard, of course, is free from such nonsense and the proponents...
This proposal has not taken the House or the Senate by storm. Instead, the representatives of the people, usually so eager to ally themselves with progress, have maintained strict silence. A few solons, it is true, have booed the idea as foolish. It seems that there is a suspicion current among the majority of these men that light-headedness scientifically obtained and tabublated, would be interested too literally in non-scientific circles, and out of sheer group loyalty they feel they must ignore the issue...
American business experience includes many panics and crises as well as booms and periods of prosperity, and it is a matter of common knowledge that business prospects are apt to look rosiest just before the storm. Hence, many far-sighted business men have for some time been trying to find the secret worm in the present beautiful apple. Even the always optimistic motor makers underestimated just how well cars would sell this year. Many less enthusiastic lines of business have felt for some time that business is "too good"-a practically new complaint...
...lecture at the University, last winter, Dr. Straton raised a storm of discussion among his large audience when he turned the meeting into an open debate, following his talk, and returned question for question to his opponents in the gathering...