Word: turmoil
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...glory of my predecessor is paradoxical, due to the literary turmoil which made the public rush to him as to an oasis. They were at once pleased with his agreeable language, which could be enjoyed without too much thinking and which pleased by its limpidity, despite the fact that often it revealed an ulterior meaning of not too reassuring a nature...
From out the turmoil of the Tufts schedule of the past week Coach Nash has saved Shanley Robinson, southpaw pitching ace, to face Captain Isadore Zarakov '27 and his followers in the contest today. Robinson has enjoyed a phenominal season to date. Of the 14 games won by the Nash-coached aggregation, the stellar boxman has turned in 11 triumphs, and only once has he fallen before the onslaught of opposing batsmen...
...instance. Now there is nothing more difficult to obtain than helpful and intelligent criticism from those who are at the moment enmeshed in their own personal problems. Nevertheless students who have genuinely constructive opinions concerning their courses and who possess Platonic idealism which allows them to look upon the turmoil with some idea of objectivity, should not hesitate to proffer their views. Every undergraduate is, unfortunately, troubled with a certain inferiority complex in the question of pedagogy--pedagogy both theoretical and practical. In the matter under discussion, however, which tests every innovation instituted in the College in the last twenty...
Premier Stanley Baldwin and his Chancellor of Exchequer, Winston Churchill, were discovered to have been flayed roundly in a new novel by H. G. Wells, to be published in September, as a contribution to the country's coal-mining turmoil...
Polykushka. The story of this Russian film's production at the Fifth Avenue Playhouse comes as a surprise to natives who grumble about "foreign invaders." It was made in 1918, when Russia had just entered the turmoil of social reconstruction and film studios, in consequence, were crippled. Several years after its creation, the Director, M. Nelidov, fled to the U. S., sought occupation for his talent, found only a $20-a-week job in a bank. Cinema magnates, when they granted interviews, asked for samples of his work. He could offer nothing, because the Socialist Party...