Word: vente
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...community. It cannot be said certainly that the many educational innovations of the past few years would not have taken place just the same if the students had kept perfectly silent. Yet the fact must be admitted that the innovations have taken place and that students have given vent to a great many opinions. With those who believe that the undergraduates have merely echoed opinions long held by their elders, we cannot argue. We can suggest, however, that at least the students have produced an echo where before they emitted not a sound. We can also point to the fact...
...ended the extraordinary scene on the first day of the war in Passaic. Nobody knew what had occasioned it. The strikers had not been disorderly. They had sound legal right to march down Dayton Street, provided they broke no windows, gave vent to no loud jeering at Bomber Zober. But although the sound of that human surf, following the chief's experiments with tear gas, had begun to be ominous, the crowd of some 3,000 persons that milled around at Highland and Dayton Avenues on the following afternoon paid very little attention to the 35 patrolmen who were watching...
...which appeared the Premier's full style and title. He brandished the ballot and demanded to know through what "pernicious influence" the letters "M. C." (Military Cross) had been omitted after his own name. He threatened to take legal steps under the Canadian Elections Act. Finally he decided to vent his spleen in the following tempestuous campaign outburst...
...qualities that have won for the Crimson (Harvard University undergraduate daily) high rank among college newspapers, urbanity has not been least. Has the faculty displeased the students? The Crimson editors have not gnashed their strong young teeth and given vent to puerile polemic. Cool satire is the Crimson's mode. Have undergraduates been boorish? The Crimson chastened them with mockery...
Last week the Earl of Oxford and Asquith ripped open a long, ominous-looking envelope; gave vent to several expressions almost as pungent as those for which his wife "Margot" is famous. Before him lay the resignation from the Liberal party of Sir Alfred Mond, with the added declaration that Sir Alfred will hereafter consider himself a Conservative, and the explanation that he has taken this action because the Land Tenure Reform scheme to which Mr. Lloyd George has pledged the Liberals (TIME, Dec. 12 et ante) amounts, in Sir Alfred's opinion, to "nationalization of agricultural lands...