Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...came from feeling that God was on their side. After their exile they were scattered and as aliens were isolated and made to feel the strangeness of their situation. In some cases they were persecuted but not so much as we are apt to think. These persecutions were especially bitter about the second century...
...bitter disappointment when Yale won the toss and opened the game with a gain of ten yards. Some feared a repetition of last year's scenes but none followed Harvard immediately showed her mettle by forcing Yale to kick, and from that moment until Yale had succeeded in laying up Emmons and Upton, the honors were even. After that Yale clearly had the advantage. Harvard put up a strong defensive game, while the breaking through and tackling was superb. Yale's interference succumbed time and time again to the hard low tackles. Every man played the game of his life...
...spirit of debate. He said he did not rise to bespeak a hearing for any wild or fanciful utopian scheme, but for a gradual and practical adoption of a nationalistic form of government. He dwelt particularly on the injustice of the present form of government, and introduced a bitter comparison between the millionaire and the workingman of today...
...language used by the Chief Justice, who was a just and sincere man, is language characteristic of the time when animosities among religious sects were bitter and intense; and if he were to draw this clause today, it would be couched in different terms and would breathe a very different spirit. No lecturer could now with propriety use such language, adopt such views, or be inspired by such a spirit, as is disclosed by the expressions of the Chief Justice in drawing the third clause of his will At the present time this subject should be and doubtless will...
...language in which Justice Dudley defined the purpose of this lecture, showed how bitter he felt against the Catholic Church. He saw danger in it, for toward the end of his life, was a period of Catholic domination, when the whole spirit of affairs seemed subjected to Catholic influence. Professor Emerton defined first the term "Catholic" and gave a historical sketch of the growth of the Church. The Catholic idea was originally an educational one; a scheme for the regeneration of men. At the time when it originated, there were many systems of philosophy, but the hope of a future...