Word: vehement
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...have caused world-wide privation, Unemployment, want, starvation, Trade and industry stagnation; You have caused humiliation, Hatred and recrimination, Anger and denunciation, Vehement expostulation, Armament, war preparation...
...audience remained, wondered what the meat was. They thought it most probable that he had adopted the idea of an expanding Universe. Other famed scientists who also have adopted it: Harlow Shapley of Harvard Astronomical Observatory; Walter Nernst of the University of Berlin. Most vehement exponent is Sir James Hopwood Jeans, British physicist...
...broader than ever as he faced the first one, empty handed. "Good afternoon," said he, politely, innocently. "What can I do for you this afternoon?" Vainly each man pleaded, reasoned, expostulated, protested ; begged to know why his paper was being excluded from this, the picture of pictures! Most vehement was the reporter from the Mirror, which had heralded the advance of Baby Lindbergh for some six months and had printed a large "artist's conception" of the mother & child on the birthday. To all questions Col. Lindbergh returned a smile of increasing breadth and the reply: "Sorry...
...Most vehement in his denunciation of the plan was Mr. Knopf who justifiably claims to have made many a good book popular, and to have raised typographic and material standards in American book manufacture. Concurring with him were E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., Frederick A. Stokes, Scribner's, G. P. Putnam's Sons. These and others were content to say that they had no intention of joining the stampede. Mr. Knopf, who has given the matter much thought, said further...
...grew weary traipsing back and forth between the two committees all week long. Their testimony grew jumbled in the confusion of double hearings. But above the welter of words and figures, the loud police court methods of interrogation used by unfriendly Senators, the first poundings and cane thumpings of vehement witnesses, emerged the definite out lines of a real and important division of opinion on naval policy...