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Word: bitterness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...industry and therefore will not revive until business as a whole regains confidence. In Gypsum's case, January and February sales were 25% under last year and the company is therefore unlikely to equal the $5,400,000 it made in 1937. This made Chairman Avery very bitter. Turning lecturer in true Rooseveltian style, he too presented a price chart, but he held it upside down. Snapped he: "It's the influence of this Government business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Plastered President | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

Free speech in Japan is a reality according to Hindmarsh. He explained that with permission from the War and Navy Departments, he spoke last fall in Tokio in bitter condemnation of Japanese military and diplomatic policies, a speech that was printed in newspapers with a total circulation of over nine million. From War and Navy officials came nothing but letters of praise...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REPORTS ON JAPAN FASCISM UNTRUE, HINDMARSH SAYS | 3/10/1938 | See Source »

...With the same aristocratic naturalness she let two high-born English bachelors make her home their headquarters. They taught her the Greek poets, practiced the art of conversation, took her in a plane over East Africa, and their death, during her last weeks in Africa, was interwoven with the bitter loss of her farm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dark Continent | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

...Princeton's disqualified 300-yard medley relay team. 2:53.5 was the clocking, a world's record, invalid because Al Van de Weghe, Tiger backstroker, failed to touch the wall with his hand as he negotiated a somersault turn in the first leg. The Nassan mermen were rather bitter about the ruling, for Van de Weghe, is notorious for touching as much as two feet below the surface, a practice which makes it very difficult for the judge on turns to see what's going...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson's Top Swimmers Wash Stripes Off Tiger Men in Sensational Victory | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

Adams will out for revenge this afternoon. House champions for three consecutive years, the Goldcoasters have twice previously tasted defeat at the hands of Yale teams. Last year Davenport administered the bitter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Goldcoast Hoopmen Face Yale College Champions Here Today | 3/4/1938 | See Source »

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