Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bitter experiences," continued Dr. Reisner, "was with a tomb of the Sixth Dynasty at Naga-ed-der back in 1902. We had discovered a grave some 4000 years old. One half of it had caved in but the other part was intact. Clearing away the intact end, we found it to be the opening of a long passageway leading down into the hillside. It was filled with clean, chipped limestone and by this and other indications we knew that the tomb had not been opened from the day it had been sealed some 4000 years ago. The passage was cleared...
...Nichols assumes here, as he does in the rest of his article, that there is a bitter conflict between scholarship and athletics in the University; and that excellence in the former is incompatible with prestige in the latter. He supposes that President Lowell's development of the tutorial system and his hopes for its fostering of scholarship are regarded by alumni as a blow at athletic superiority and a cause of the University's recent defeats in major sport contests. Absurd as all this sounds, Mr. Nichols goes even further. He implies that the tempest of criticism which has stormed...
...unrivalled American railroad net was in part the result of this bitter struggle; and pride in its development has led to forgetfulness of the old unscrupulous dealings. Yet even today new giants are waging financial wars, or at least sparring for position in a great game of railroad chess. By the present deal, which was actually consummated months ago, the Rock Island Road gains a position of vantage in the Southwest carrying trade. Looking forward both to further competition, and to a day when the Southern Pacific will seek a road to the East, the Rock Island realizes that...
...reputation that adheres to the fire-eaters of an earlier day. For that matter, the Speakership itself does not now enjoy the reputation that it once had. But it is still a high place in the eyes of the country and it still can invoke a bitter contest between aspirants. Why else did the aspirants for the Speakership begin to lay their plans as soon as it was known, last fall, that Mr. Gillett was to be elevated to the Senate? Why else did an atramental cloud of controversy settle over the struggle, political cuttlefish and squid belch their inky...
Congressmen, working in the shadow of the gavel which terminated the last session of the 68th Congress, finally passed a bill to increase postal pay and postal rates.- The last fierce struggle took place in the Senate. A score of Senators rose to denounce the bill. Particularly bitter were they because it provided a two-cent service charge on every parcels post package-a charge which they declared was robbery of the farmers. A roll call was taken. The bill passed 69 to 12. The twelve negatives came from Senators Borah, Brookhart, Howell, Norbeck-Republicans ; and Bruce, Dial. George, Glass...