Word: thunderously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...What does Chief Joe Thunder Horse do to an undertaker who raped his little sister...
Significance. To Franklin Roosevelt in the White House and to many another keen political head the stir had quite another significance. It meant that most of the silver bloc in Congress had had their thunder stolen. Only a few months ago silver was 25? an ounce and 64 1/2 ? was such a magnificent price by comparison that they would appear foolish to complain By his action the President appeared to have detached one of the most earnest battalions from the inflationist army, to have disarmed what would undoubtedly have been one of the most troublesome factions in the new Congress...
Then you suggest that that academic credit should not be given for Military or Naval Science because they are "trade courses" and not liberal arts. Then what in thunder do you mean by "liberal" when, if you thumb through the University catalogue, you will find listed courses on "Musicology," "Weather-forecasting," "Aesthetics," "Sensation," "Accounting," and three on "Sanitary Engineering." You will also find, near the top of the list of academic seniority, a "Professor of Syphills, Emeritus...
...Flaying this platitude as "weak and vague," the Paris Press clamored for an end to what was called "the massacre of Ministries." As yet no French would-be-dictator loomed, but that slashing Conservative, onetime Premier Andre Tardieu, get out on a stump-speaking tour of the provinces to thunder: "Liberty must be protected by Authority!" Though protesting that he does not aspire to become a Hitler or Mussolini, M. Tardieu warned that "There are rising at the doors of France regimes of mass dictatorships imported from Asia . . . demanding: in France a strong government conscious of her historic mission...
When President Lowell accepted fifteen millions of Harkness dollars to build the Houses, he stole the thunder which rightfully belonged to Yale. Thanks to Harvard's promptness and Yale's hesitancy, the College Plan at Yale went into effect this fall with none of the din and fury which accompanied the start of the House Plan at Harvard...