Word: bitterly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...junior University crew, pitted against the Princeton and Navy seconds over the Henley course at Philadelphia Saturday afternoon, lost a bitter struggle to the Tiger oarsmen after one of the most stirring finishes provided by the regatta. The three boats were nearly on a par for the greater part of the course, with the Crimson and Princeton battling for first place, but the Orange and Black eight came back with a driving spurt at the finish which gave it a quarter boat length's margin across the line. Navy finished in third place, a length astern the University shell...
...stability of the Far East because under its protection and by its moral support--although against the wish of the British Government--Japan (at least militaristic Japan) has made aggression after aggression on China. It was the Anglo-Japanese Alliance which was the real cause of the bitter Shantung controversy, for it was this alliance which gave Japan the opportunity of seizing Shantung. In place of the Anglo-Japanese alliance is the now well-known Four Power Treaty between Great Britain, the United States, France, and Japan, the latter pledging themselves to respect each other's rights in the Islands...
...many months ago, a member of our faculty made the alarming discovery that the sinister hand of Prohibition is reaching out toward, Literature. Those of us who shared his discovery wept bitter tears for that--and other reason. But now there will be even more cause for bitterness, for the good old college drinking song is doomed. The plague has reached the Institute down on the Charles. Tech's "Stein Song" is dead. No longer will the alumni rally round the festive board and sing the song of "a stein on the table". For the stein is no longer there...
...conference is over, but from all indications much of the progressive work-instituted by the administration will have to be repeated in the Senate. The fight for ratification of the several treaties, agreed upon by the conference, bids fair to be as bitter as that which took place over the League two years...
Boston's election, which takes place today, will probably be decided by a margin of only a few thousand votes. The campaign has been bitter; each side has denounced the other with more than usual vigor; charges of incompetence and dishonesty have been numerous...