Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...such innovation as this contains at least one bitter ingredient, and the Council's proposal that the five "area" courses be made compulsory in place of the present distribution requirements will be a strong dose for those students with definite occupational proclivities. The proposal will be criticized for forcing the postponement of specialization until the final two years, until after the broad "area" background has been nailed in place. This is flying in the face of Dean Hanford's policy of providing tutorial and a certain amount of specialization for some talented men as early as their first year...
...Bitter? Perhaps I am, but Ceil, think how wonderful everything could be if only we would try to aim in the right direction. If only the rotten branches were cut off and cast away-the 'true vine' would then have a chance to thrive. Gosh I have my dreams, I can tell...
...eastern Pennsylvania, where there is still a ghost town named Delano. As a young husband in 1908 he rode horseback with his uncle, another Warren Delano, over the Cumberland ridges of Virginia to inspect bituminous properties in Kentucky's Harlan County, later to be called "bloody" for its bitter strikes and brutal strikebreaking. His point: Franklin Roosevelt knows about coal mine management from personal experience...
...Washington, D. C. amateur shows. Broadway Showman Eddie Dowling brought her to Manhattan as "Tiny Little" in Honeymoon Lane. During more than four years of Broadway (Hit the Deck, Flying High), the comics of the show business treated her to so many cruel fat-lady gags that finally, bitter and hurt, she packed and went home...
Steel. Far from gay, however, was the tory of U. S. Steel Corp. Big Steel has run at lower percent of capacity than the independents, has faced bitter price competition in the profitable (to others) Detroit steel market, has had much of its capacity in Pittsburgh and Chicago idle because of stagnant demand for capital goods. Last quarter it made only 18? a share on its preferred stock, grimly paid holders the $1.75 coming to them: the difference, $5,644,368 (nearly half the size of Chrysler's profit for the quarter), came out of a generation of accumulated...