Word: uproars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Amid an uproar of dispute on parliamentary procedure, and a bitter battle over the issues, the Harvard Student Union finally recorded a favorable 5636 vote on the first platform of the Vassar program providing for active measures against aggressor nations...
...clearly detected, and also of the possibility that all the constants may vary in amounts too small or over a time too long to permit detection. By last week the talk of inconstant constants had reached such a pitch that to the ears of interested laymen it was an uproar...
...thing this constant uproar proved was that physical science is still lusty, ready to discard old theories if they get in the way of others newer and more useful...
...overlooked in the uproar of the somewhat over-punctual celebration of Mr. McNutt's arrival in Washington was his official mission: to tell the President that: 1) Philippine sentiment for immediate independence is declining, 2) that Major General Douglas MacArthur is "doing wonders" with the Philippine Army, and 3) that U. S. residents of the Philippines resent paying income taxes...
When first copies of Focus arrived in San Antonio, pecan shellers were on strike, the city in an uproar (TIME, Feb. 28). In an hour 2,700 copies of the 10? Focus were snapped up. San Antonio's gasping public tried not to believe Leslie White's timely charge that "it is possible for a four-plus syphilitic to obtain a health card from the San Antonio health department for 50?," to go to work shelling pecans for the nation to eat. Shortly Editor White was indicted for criminal libel. Certain of his facts, he was delighted...