Word: gamut
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...face "the most skeptical audience in the world," the Disarmament Conference (TIME, Feb. 8, 1932 et seq.). Admittedly one of the world's greatest orators, Prime Minister MacDonald was never greater than last week. In his speech, which lasted an hour and 20 minutes, he ran the gamut from threats to wheedling, from sarcasm to good cheer-all with Scotch power and dignity...
...ranch girl, from flirtation with a handsome half-breed in a sylvan glen to fortune and notoriety in the big city, and then back again to the sylvan glen and the knowledge that she loves the half-breed after all. In the course of her adventures she runs the gamut of engagement, marriage, separation, motherhood, prostitution for her baby's sake, divorce, and gigolo-hiring, before she at last finds true love in the arms of good old Moonglow, the Indian. Not content with this, the scenario writers estranged her father, burned up her baby, and put her mother...
Juno Marin, twice married, has landed in the sanitarium after running the gamut of a gay society in which people ate to live, lived to drink and drank to forget living. In the first flush of their romance Vondorn takes up drinking again, and with that his tale is as good as told. How he and Juno run off to live and decay together in a hut in the desert, how Vondorn slaves at his book, how he visits the nearby Beldoro Observatory, prepares to take up residence with Juno there, is only the long prelude to the ultimate cough...
...twelve years now I have lived in France. Over here events of great importance have followed each other fast. Pick your Paris newspapers as you will, run the whole gamut of varying political opinion, and still you will find it nigh impossible to form a true idea of what is happening...
...wish to protest against the laissez-faire attitude adopted toward this menace. I am sure most members of the University will endorse the protest. There are times when one envisions Harvard as a fortress guarded by an infinite number of whirling autos, buses and street cars, forming a gamut through which the lorn pedestrian must pass...