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Word: tempests (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...runs in the first off Curtiss, who hasn't been right in recent games, started off the Northeastern tempest. After the Crimson had run up six tallies by the seventh inning to trail 7-6, the visitors one more went to work and scored twice in the seventh and once in the eighth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VARSITY BOWS 10-8 TO HUSKIES' NINE | 5/24/1938 | See Source »

...With the tempest set up by the appointment of Granville Bicks '23, as a Fellow in American history still whirlling in Greater Boston, Hicks reiterated his Communist beliefs, and the University was directly hit by a bill introduced in the Massachusetts House of Representatives, as the chief developments...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hicks Tempest Brings Forth Tax Bill Hitting Harvard Exemption | 4/15/1938 | See Source »

...social invitations from the British governors. Because of these restrictions, a great sensation was caused recently when Saint Gandhi was found to have partaken of two bananas, an orange, three walnuts and a cup of boiled milk at the house of Sir John Anderson, then governor of Bengal. The tempest of excitement this raised among Congressmen, only too eager to get on eating and dickering terms with their British masters, was stilled by Saint Gandhi in his own way. He announced that he no longer pays his Congress dues, is no longer a Congressman, thus can sip boiled milk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Chariot of Freedom | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

...posse set out from Bozeman on skis to bring in the bodies and as investigators from Northwest Air's headquarters and from Washington hustled unhappily toward the wreck, no one had any idea what could have caused it. The weather on the spot was blowy but no tempest. The plane had the best of equipment, even a unique loop antenna made static-proof by enclosure in the ship's transparent plexiglass nose. Lockheed 143's can maintain their height on one engine and it seemed incredible that both could have cut out simultaneously. Said Farmer Homer White...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Flaming Arrow | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

...things in the main, are responsible for the tempest in the teapot. First is their well known political views. But "concluding appointments" are given daily to men in all fields, when crowded departments hold out no chances for them to rise to professorial rank. There is no reflection on the abilities of Dr. Walsh and Dr. Sweezy. The Economics Department is unique in that the great percentage of its professorial chairs are held by comparatively young men, and, as professorships are permanent appointments, no future is held out for the large number of instructors now rising in the field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TEMPEST IN A TEAPOT | 4/12/1937 | See Source »

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