Word: badness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...passed a bad night. I don't feel well, but I try to work. Things don't go well. ... I just slept a little here in my chair, but I am weak and they...
...rest is frequently moving realism, always hampered by bad locution. But what you will remember is the ghostly burthen of fear and futility borne by the voices of shadowy warriors...
Flushed with victory, the coalition troopers pushed on toward Calcium Carbide-ville, only to suffer a bad reverse on the barbed wire entanglements of the Power Trust. (Power companies supply electricity to manufacture calcium in plants widely scattered over the U. S.) Thirteen Democrats with power or carbide plants in their States broke ranks in the face of the enemy, refused to charge. The assault to halve the ifz'-per-lb. rate was repulsed by the regular Republicans...
Bitter Feeling. But elimination of the liquor question did not entirely preclude bad feeling. Educational requirements for admission to the Bar received major consideration and brought in conflict two belligerent factions, one headed by Dean Lewis of Pennsylvania, the other by Dean Gleason Leonard Archer of the Suffolk Law School (Boston night school). Dean Lewis advocated reaffirming the Association's previous recommendation of a two-year college education prior to law study. Dean Archer charged a "clique" within the Association was attempting to foster a "college monopoly on legal education by outlawing evening law schools." Dean Lewis retorted that...
...Grand Central, Manhattan, Sydney Zollicoffer Mitchell dismounted from the Twentieth Century with a bad cold, went quickly to his office in the 2 Rector St. building. He telephoned a large Stock Exchange house, said he thought there would be trouble but "just call on me for anything you want." A few hours later stock of his gigantic Electric Bond & Share which had recently reached a high of 189 sold for 91. A few days later, it sold...