Word: bitterly
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...social profession. No lawyer can practice long without having his weaknesses and defects pointed out to him with unsparing accuracy by some opponent, and in this way he learns how to deal with men. His life is one long training, and bitter as the conflicts in courts may seem to be, the relations between the members of the profession are as a rule cordial, and grow more so with years...
...there were not enough of them to warrant generalization. These particular individuals, with one exception, considered that the war was forced upon Germany by other nations; the single dissenting individual thought that the war was forced upon the German people by the German rulers for whom he expressed bitter condemnation...
...Gompers' eloquent remarks at the Harvard Union recently were calculated to convey the impression to the minds of young men that large number of people are out of work because of some opposition or discrimination against them--because of some "bitter antagonism against the poor devils who work and give service to society." These are his words. Mr. Gompers was vouched for by his distinguished introducer, Professor Ripley, as "a great leader of men and a great lover of his country." We are glad to think that he is both. But as a leader and a patriot, would...
...word "tradition" has fallen. It is just because Harvard is traditional in its point of view that it is misunderstood, and often deliberately so, by Americans. Tradition to many is a synonym for Reaction; and yet the tradition of Harvard has always been liberal. From the days of the bitter church controversies in the early nineteenth century, through the recent war, Harvard has stood for Liberalism in a much more truthful way than many of the great or small colleges that profess to be open to "all the people." When one recalls that the first active collegiate Socialist society...
Beginning with a meeting of the directors in the Manager's house the play presents every side of the situation on the last day of a bitter strike way, lead on both sides by extremists, at the Trenartha Tin Plate Works on the borders of England and Wales. With remarkable paralleling, Mr. Galsworthy grips his audience now with pictures of the discomforts and illness of the old father, the head of the Company, and his children; now with the tragic sufferings of the workers and their families; and again with the impassioned appeals of labor agitators before the quarrelling workers...