Word: waves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tulsa, Okla., haled into court. Tom Bailey told Police Judge A. A. Hatch that he did not know whether or not he was intoxicated when picked up by police. Asked Judge Hatch: "Did everything sort of wave up and down? . . . Did you feel mighty happy and grand, and love every one in the whole world? And did you also feel like you could whip the pants off any mother's son alive...
...danger passes, as that they find that they never were really in any genuine trouble anyway. What they took for a flood was really only a cloudburst, and the hermetically sealed door and windows only served to make the room stuffy. The result of this blunder is a wave of cynicism decidedly more bitter than ever could have been the moral letdown following a period of real rather than imaginary distress...
...dusty little Southwestern town of Vrain as a waif. A good-natured mechanic took him in, gave him a job. The local parson worried about Danny's education, but nothing was done about it till Professor W. Winston ("Dubya-Dubya") Burlington came to town on a forensic wave of Armistice Day patriotism, took Danny under his wing...
...flood-wave of anti-intellectualism which has been inundating American university life during recent years will find an adamantine dike in its way if President Conant's experiment in study- as-a-hobby is carried through to its logical conclusion at Harvard within the next few years...
...Massachusetts Teacher's Oath Bill was attacked as a step backward in the progress of the State, but was not considered serious. It is "merely a reflection of the general wave of intolerance which has been rising in this country but which I believe is now beginning to recede...