Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Colonel Thompson's recommendations, the ones demanding most immediate attention will be those which are intended to break the bitter hostility between Governor General Wood and the Philippine legislature...
...Discoverer. When Darwin had labored 20 years to support his theory, another man (Alfred Russel Wallace) appeared about to forestall him by announcing the same theory, with him a week old. Far from jealous or bitter, Darwin joined his announcement with Wallace's. They were warm friends. Darwin's point: the the ory outweighed its authors' feelings as the earth does a peanut...
...Stratin on the contrary, believes implicitly in the infallibility of the Bible. He has been bitter in his denunciation of people willing to compromise on the fundamentalist principles...
...people can resist the methods employed by the mill owners for the greater part of a year, it seems evident that the nation is in sympathy with the strike. There has never been a strike in industrial history before that has lasted so long or given rise to such bitter and varied issues as the Passaic demonstration. The mill-owners have lost over $50,000,000 during the 43 weeks of the strike. The suffering of the workers has been incalculable...
...graduate school. The diplomatic recriminations and amenities which, followed the severance of athletic relations between Princeton and the University have not been the only consequences of the football game of a week ago. A disciplinary warning issued by the Law School authorities has aroused among the students a bitter discussion. It was issued to those first-year men who were reported absent at their last class before the game, and the general feeling among students over the week-end has been one of querulous resentment...