Word: turmoil
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that I have ever seen, notwithstanding the alarming reports that have been sent out from there. The whole trouble has been in the use of one word. In Spanish they refer to a change of government as a 'revolution,' and of course our people think that means turmoil and trouble. As a matter of fact, their 'revolutions' are nothing more than the ordinary changes of government in England and France...
Some of them were old, with peaked brown faces gouged and distorted by the wild turmoil in their heads; some were boys who admired the carpenter because of his sorrowful eyes and comely figure; others peddlers and harlots, cripples scabrous with loathsome diseases, twitching paralytics, and mahogany-faced bushmen who had heard of Vespaciano and had come down from the hills. To them he talked of what had been revealed to him; some he healed, using the same formula with which he had raised his first patient, and it came to the ears of certain authorities that this formula...
...Mary College, who formed the nucleus of Phi Beta Kappa with four fellow-students. The strength of their conviction as to the need of such a fraternity for "attaining the important ends of Society" is attested by the fact that they launched it at a time of national turmoil, in the very hour when General Washington and his army were being forced back across the Jerseys to their line of last defense at the Delaware...
...this country who want results before they will buy vacuum cleaners, or theatre tickets, or enter any "lasting covenants" have lost some part of their defense. In eleven lays the League ended the barking along the Greek frontier. And it did this while two cabinets were in a turmoil, and the League itself not actually in session. Surely the League can now stand more firmly on its own feet. The American public need no longer doubt its effectiveness, nor the benefit of an eventual alliance with it. Truly and with expressive results--it worked...
...interested only in the grand problems of the universe and this, its man infested planet, a tiny riot in a university is no more than froth on a minute wave of trouble. But to the legions who mass themselves within the halls of learning oven such a petty turmoil has its interest. Even an occasional son of Harvard, fresh returned from divisional examinations, may question the judgments of the lesser gods. But whatever powers exist in what some more caustic critics have termed Caves, need not be too alarmed by the rude murmurs heard about the streets and steeples...