Word: vehementer
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This problem of existing interests occurs in other forms. The non-resident landlord wants to keep milking his holdings. He is vehement when the city offers to tear them down. But he is not nearly so outspoken as the resident who is told to fix his home, at his own expense, in order that its value, and its taxes, should rise. In Boston, Mayor Hynes has promised not to raise taxes on rehabilitated housing, but he will not be mayor forever...
There were two versions of the send-off Harry got on the day University regulations forced him to quit. One, expressed in vehement terms by Mrs. Ruth T. Brown, former Grad Center employee, asserted that "no one even shook his hand," and that his fellow workers were plenty unhappy about...
...when Pollock first conceived the idea of dripping and sloshing paint from buckets onto vast canvases laid flat on the floor. Once the canvases were hung upright, what gravity had accomplished came to look like the outpouring of Herculean energy. Pollock had invented a new kind of decoration, astonishingly vehement...
...this latter stand which had met with most vehement opposition in the pages of the Yale Alumni Magazine. Outspokesman for the opposition was Jack B. Schmetterer '52, who charged that sons of alumni were admitted without competing and were often unable to maintain their positions...
Henry Morton Robinson's article has stirred up vehement protest among non-Ivy League college students, some of whom are expected to appear at the forum to challenge his opinions. Holiday's advertisements called the article "the most infuriating magazine feature...