Word: outbreak
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...year 1920 must take its place with 1848 as a year of revolution. Even the academic world has been swept into the maelstrom--the most conspicuous fighting occurring at Ithaca, N. Y. Like the daily revolutions in Russia the causes of the Cornell outbreak are little understood by the outside world, the official dispatches being few and far between. Some interesting facts, however, may be gleaned from the report of the special Committee appointed from the Student Council and the two Senior Honorary Societies concerning the relations of women to the University...
...were whole-hearted in their cause, working earnestly for liberty, they would not give way to abortive outbursts which can have no real effect on their ultimate desire, but would aim steadily at their main objective, refusing to be turned aside by the floutings of a thousand flags. This outbreak in New York has the aspect of surface fanaticism, rather than deep-seated determination...
Back in 1914, the outbreak of the World War brought a flood of war orders that increased our normal demand tremendously. Prices rose. When we went in three years later, it not only multiplied demand once more but it took some four million men out of productive industry. Prices climbed rapidly. When the war was won everybody felt that we would revert back to the "good old days." Instead of going to work to make up the shortage of goods, however, we experienced a general let-down in industry. Labor went on a vacation. Supply dwindled. At the same time...
...league controversy will be. It has become perfectly evident in the course of the past twelvemonth that the people of America are distrustful of the League of Nations covenant as it now stands. Rather than support the Democratic viewpoint and vote for Cox, the equivalent, since President Wilson's outbreak of Sunday last, of voting for the League compact as proposed by Wilson himself, the majority would vote for a Republican nominee unalterably opposed to the League in any form...
...Tawney was born in Calcutta in 1880, was educated at Rugby and Balliol College, Oxford, and until the outbreak of the war was engaged in teaching, most of his time being spent at Oxford and on the executive committee of the Workers' Educational Association. He is the author of books on English economic history, the minimum wage, and similar economic subjects. In 1914 he enlisted as a private in the army, and in 1916 was wounded on the Somme. The Sankey Commission, on which he recently served, was a body of men representing the mine-workers, the mine-owners...