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Word: bitter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Field yesterday afternoon. It now looks as though the combined forces of past injuries, the elements, and the imminence of the season's big game will send the Crimson against Yale Saturday with the Brown competition as its last real experience under fire. The coaching saff decided that the bitter cold would be too injurious to muscles still aching from the weekend victory to permit a scrimmage...

Author: By Robert W. Morgan jr., | Title: Squad Drills on Punts, Pass Defense | 11/19/1947 | See Source »

...three hours the Varsity faced bitter cold, high winds, and Eli coach Howie Odell's brand of football as run by the Freshmen, as they went into their final week to make or break the 1947 season...

Author: By Robert W. Morgan jr., | Title: Varsity Opens Crucial Week Of '47 Season | 11/18/1947 | See Source »

...Dublin, N.H., the 156th annual edition of the Old Farmer's Almanac predicted that 1948 would be a year of bitter winter, fleeting summer, sun spots and crop failures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Nov. 17, 1947 | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

...week for Bob Hope. In the latest Hooperating, he lost his position as the nation's favorite radio comic when Fellow Funnyman Fred Allen tied him for first place. As if that weren't bitter enough, the representatives of 20,000 college students named Hope the worst comedian on the air. On the basis of good taste, the students decided, his show was "barely acceptable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The RAP | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

...session. On the German ship coming home they began arguing: Siqueiros was for Stalin, Rivera was for Trotsky. No one else on the boat understood Spanish, but they all stared fascinated at the table where the two men sat, meal after meal, fighting it out with high words and bitter tears. Finally the two asked for separate tables and Rivera, shaken by the fury of the quarrel, took to his bunk. Says Siqueiros, "When we reached Veracruz there were two delegations at the pier. One was composed of Rivera's friends, and they took him to Mexico City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Paint & Pistols | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

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