Word: tumult
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...library was well supplied with the best works of all sorts. It was generally deserted. I requisitioned it. Secluded, far from the tumult of the streets, in a little room inaccessible to the few visitors that came, I read the best historians and philosophers. Days, weeks passed. It lasted two years. My mind acquired there what it lacked; there my intellect completed its formation. It was a delight...
...Without tumult and tomtoms, Author Oliver has had literary success before now. His novel Fear, published two years ago. also by Macmillan's Religious Book Department, has achieved eleven printings. Victim and Victor has had one large printing since December. Both are on the same general theme: the healing power, spiritual, mental, physical, that may lie in the co-operative work of an understanding physician and an intelligent minister. The hero of Victim and Victor is a priest unfrocked for drunkenness. Author Oliver, a Doctor, was an unfrocked minister from 1923 to 1927, is now practising psychiatry and criminology...
...newspapers paid small attention. Mississippi and Arkansas followed the lead of Tennessee, passed laws against the teaching of Evolution in State-supported schools. In the legislatures ot 16 other States similar bills were introduced. And last week citizens of the U. S. had to realize, perhaps wearily, that the tumult and the shouting about Evolution has started again with vigor renewed...
...once a year it takes pleasure in calling together its representatives from the convenient extremities of Maine and California, to take stock, likewise in a quiet way, and to celebrate another anniversary. The National Student Federation meeting is one of the rare front-page topics left of the sensational tumult that a few years ago nearly brought faculties and undergraduates to blows, and did result in an almost universal organizing of student bodies and student councils...
...noisy, militant affection. Unlike his opponent under similar circumstances, Governor Smith was at ease. He let his people exult, exulted with them. When he was ready, he hushed them. When he was through speaking he stayed among them, shaking his own hands to them all, hailing individuals, happy in tumult...