Word: outbreaks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...making his attack Simmons was anything but original for almost every day for the past few weeks there has been some similar outbreak. On the other hand his statement does come officially from the head of the largest security market in the world and shows clearly that the Federal Reserve Board has hard sledding ahead...
This first major outbreak of the Forum since its divorce from the Baptist Social Union was very self-conscious over the dangers of being too serious about its program of reform. "We are often too serious" said the editor of the Nation, a journal which has claimed to have a greater popularity among Harvard undergraduates than any other weekly--excepting The Saturday Evening Post. So the Undesirables who invaded the realm of the Puritans roared in revels of laughter as they received the import of Jack and Jill's climb up the ancient hill. It was an important occasion...
...Outbreak of the Civil War", Professor Whitney, Harvard...
...fire companies more or less organized this system, providing an engine house for the pump, and delegating only a certain proportion of the population to the duty of fire fighting. At every outbreak, the firemen of different ranks were there in full regalla, distingulshed by white leather painted caps with gilded fronts, ornamented by the insignia of the engineers, fire wardens, or ordinary firemen. The mayor, recorder, and aldermen were also supposed to be present, although their value as fire-fighters was problematical, and could be known by their white wands with a gilded flame at the top. Perhaps...
...declined last night to release the name of the course in which this unusual departure occurred for fear that the fact that the vagabond secured a satisfactory grade for his three hour participation might unduly swell the rolls next year. But shrouded in silence as the details of this outbreak of Romanticism must be, brightly shines the moral of the tale; even in the twentieth century a vagabond may be King...