Word: turmoil
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thoroughly political Congress, which is what any truly professional Congress is expected to be in a presidential year. Its routine work was pretty well out of the way, but matters of intimate consequence to citizens, and therefore of private anxiety to Congressmen, were in a state of turmoil which portended a legislative jam when it comes time for the Congress to adjourn in June...
...baby basset hound was far away from all this turmoil. Unconscious as yet that his coat is more sleek and warm than that of ordinary basset hounds, not knowing that his dark eyes have in them a more perfect lustre or that his bandy legs have a more effective warping, he slept in the early evening, dreaming, doubtless, of rabbits in which a basset hound delights. For him, there will be a year more of fields and country kennels. Then he will go to his first show. It will surprise...
Much condolence is due the feminine voters of Bryn Mawr who have survived the gruelling and chaotic procedure of the May Day polling which, with its party politics and agitation, has evidently kept the college girls in a state of hectic suspense and turmoil. However, appearances seem to indicate that it is not the voters who bear the brunt of the burden of electoral vicissitudes. For from an account of the recent proceeding at Bryn Mawr in The College News it would appear that every May Day queen pays a price for her crown in shoe leather if nothing else...
...account for the mental repression of youth; each man is an individual and his particular psychology is the determinate factor in what eventually happens to him. Therefore it is probable that the Department of Mental Hygiene, establishing as it does personal contact with and immedate injuiry into the "emotional turmoil" of the student, is the most effective solution to what will always be a problem, whether recognized or not, in any University or College...
...Paterson, N. J., two young teachers wanted to get married to two young men. The teachers, Helen C. Friedman and Marguerite B. Ellis, asked for permission to take honeymoons after their weddings. At this, there was turmoil among the members of the School Board. "Rubbish!" shouted one member. "Do taxpayers like myself pay cash so that young women, mere chits, may go off and enjoy themselves?" Said Commissioner John Grimshaw Jr., a bachelor: "They can get married after school-hours, whether we like it or not. It would be petty business to refuse to let them take their honeymoons...