Word: bitterly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...attack was provoked by an entangling series of alliances between the Tuchuns (war lords), and it is stated on reliable authority that the present conflict was principally due to the efforts of General Wu Pei-Fu who is the most powerful supporter of the Peking administration and the bitter enemy...
...open market, only to buy her himself after fierce bargaining with the pasha. He nearly loses favor by this act, but equips another galley and takes to the sea. By chance he comes upon an English vessel sent to rescue Rosamund and in charge of the dry and bitter (but just) Sir Henry Goade. By this time Sir Oliver is beginning to feel the emptiness of vengeance. He saves the English ship from destruction by threatening to blow up the Barbary galley, is surrendered to the English, and tried for piracy against his own nation. But Sir Henry Goade realizes...
...warning, a preventive for the man who is threatened with the malady of collegiate dropsy. But in this case it is applied as a cure and it is naturally ineffective to make a student recover from the loss of a class which he has already out. And it is bitter out of all proportion to its purpose. A much milder does should be sufficient to insure attendance before and after holidays. The trouble is that the college office has found no intermediate measure...
...Harriman for the control of the Illinois Central proved to be one of the epochal conflicts in the history of Wall Street. Mr. Harriman, who sought the Central as an outlet to the Union Pacific, broke with Mr. Fish in 1906, and after initially getting the worst of the bitter struggle which ensued, finally succeeded in securing enough shareholders' proxies to eliminate him from the affairs of the road, as well as from the Mutual Life Insurance Company. Feeling ran high on both sides throughout this financial feud, and in one Directors' meeting Mr. Fish struck and floored...
...Hundred Dollar Bill a young lawyer loses trust money at poker, but the bitter experience brings him closer to his wife...