Word: swing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...particularly glad to do so.* But he was going into public life, wanted a clear record, and was ready to believe that abolition of alcohol would make for social uplift. The slow arrival of that uplift has not discouraged Idealist Hoover about its ultimate arrival. The sharp swing of public sentiment away from the present law challenges his stubborn nature, for he holds mass thought in low esteem. Even his political ambition is part of this attitude, his Quaker conscience telling him he must continue in his position, cost what pain it may, for the ultimate public good...
What no oilman likes to contemplate was in progress last week. In Rusk County, eastern Texas, a new, lively oil boom was in full swing. Sober men gravely predicted that the field may turn out to be second only to prodigious Kettleman, may ruin the delicately balanced price situation...
...would seem that the pendulum has completed its arch and is on the back swing. The day is gone when a man's worth is judged by the amount of extracurricular work with which he has tampered. The proper ratio between these two elements of undergraduate life pertains solely to the individual, and in seeking it it would do no harm to bear in mind the remark of Woodrow Wilson to the effect that the side shows should not be allowed to overshadow the big tent...
Things Seen. Staggering were some of the things Diarist Knickerbocker noted on his 10,000-mi. swing around Reds...
...House Plan is not an experiment. Except for the year's start of the first two units over the others, there will have been no experimental stage scientifically conducted so that various formulas and combinations might be tried. But even when the whole seven dormitories are in full swing next September, the House Plan will not be a reality. Nothing but the raw elements will have been poured in, as they have been poured into Lowell House and Dunster House this fall. The refining process will be slow...