Word: bitterly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ladies, Gentlemen, Undergraduates: It is with mixed feelings that we, the Ivy Orator, observe this scene of pandemonium, this shambles. Four years of college life, four years of bitter strife, four years of halcyon existence have sapped our resistance. As our President has so aptly said in his recent Baccalaureate address, anything worth doing well is worth trying or at least putting off until tomorrow, since it gathers no moss in the good old summer time.' Gentlemen, your future lies behind me, and before you I see my past--my present past, which in no sense your future past...
...bane of Northwestern grain farmers, got through a mild winter in enormous numbers. Chinch bug mortality in the Midwest was only 3%. In Indiana and Kansas 93% of Hessian flies emerged unscathed from their underground puparia. Millions of Mormon crickets came safely through in Colorado, Idaho, Wyoming. Montana. Bitter cold in the East caused high mortality among some destructive insects, but the Japanese beetle was protected by heavy snows and promised to be dangerous. Special funds allocated this year to cope with these pests...
...took the House 20 minutes to pass the conference report on the Securities Exchange Bill of 1934 last week. The Senate followed suit almost as quickly. When President Roosevelt returned from his New York weekend, the product of a quarter century of liberal agitation and four months of bitter legislative wrangling lay on his desk for signature...
...bitter whistling wind on the plains outside Hsinking, owl-eyed Henry Pu Yi announced to his ancestors on March 1 that he was about to become Emperor Kang Teh of Manchukuo. Later that day he buttoned himself into a Field Marshal's uniform and ascended his throne. Japan, which was the first and, so far as the world knew until last week, the last power to recognize his puppet government (TIME, Sept. 26, 1932), sent official congratulations. The League of Nations did not dare punish Japan directly for its invasion of Manchuria, but on the strength of the Lytton...
...during his campaign, so in France many a political victory has been won by accusing the opposition of being in the pay of the Comite des Forges. Of late, as political tension in France has grown hotter, so resentment against the De Wendels and the Schneiders has grown more bitter...