pother

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Hardly less of a pother has Caltech's famed Robert Andrews Millikan made by his controversies with colleagues who did not see his cosmic ray theories as he did.

From Time Magazine Archive

As usual, there is a pother about the new-rules and an argument as to how they shall be interpreted.

From Time Magazine Archive

Despite all the current pother about the mechanics of painting, there are actually so few ways of putting color on canvas that abstractionists get grey trying to think up new tricks.

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Indiana's freshman Democratic Representative Randall S. Harmon, 55, shrugged off all the bother as mere pother.

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And the reason of the pother was this.

From The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)