Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...work of militant farm organizations, skillful lobbyists, a group of Senators and Representatives from the West and South who have convinced majorities in Congress that the proper medicine for the sick farmer is the McNary-Haugen bill (TIME, Feb. 14). Many who favor this cure say it is bitter; perhaps it is unconstitutional. President Coolidge, though he may not want to, must decide whether this cure is to be administered. Here is how it came to his hands. The Senate, fortnight ago, passed the McNary-Haugen bill, 47 to 39. Party lines were torn to shreds; the vote was almost...
...Nobel Prize for Liberature awarded me for 1925 (TIME, Nov. 22, Nov. 29) I last week gave the first assignment: To translate all the works of August Strindberg, satirical, gloomy, thrice-married, woman-hating Swedish essayist, fictionist and dramatist. Author Strindberg, (1849-1912) is famed for his bitter efforts to counteract the Scandinavian feminist movement fostered by Dramatist Henrik Ibsen of Norway...
...these students whom the S. F. F. is trying to help in their hour of great trouble. Further, in France, owing to the fall of the franc there is great poverty today among thousands of French students. It was at the suggestion of the German students, who from bitter personal experience knew the tragedy of the French students position, that the S. F. F. assumed the responsibility of raising *5,000 this year to aid French students. These are only samples of the needs that the S. F. F. is trying to meet and can be verified quite easily...
...Testament gives two slightly different versions of the Ten Command ments, EXODUS 20 : 1-17, and DEUTERONOMY 5 : 6-21. It has been a bitter problem collating and dividing these Laws. Jews follow the Talmud's order, Calvinistic and Eastern Orthodox churches Philo's, Roman Catholics and Lutherans St. Augustine...
There is probably no more bitter intellectual conflict than that between classicism and romanticism; and it is one which--as is the case with most problems of the sort--will never be entirely settled. Each side has its extreme proponents, but whereas an extremity of classicism draws in, so to speak, upon itself, romanticism flays in a hundred different ways into infinity and approaches insanity...