Word: chagrined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chagrin of Scotland Yard its sleuths had to admit last week that they could not find a $35,000 diamond bracelet lost at the Duke of Kent's wedding by the No. 1 bridesmaid, Crown Princess Juliana of the Netherlands, dumpling daughter of the World's Wealthiest Woman, Her Majesty Queen Wilhelmina...
...have to chuckle at big, handsome, healthy and husky Gerhard's chagrin, finding he has been mistaken for one of the weaker...
...Yard's now sprinkler system turned on the Freshman Class last night much to the chagrin of men living in Grays Hall. Sleepy members of the Class of 1938 were aroused by the noise of the sprinklers in the basement and flocked to the corner of the Yard near Lehman Hall, in various stages of undress...
...line with the contemporary educational philosophy which has been espoused by the new administration the department of English had laid much emphasis on the importance of scholastic research to the chagrin of those students desirous of pursuing the art of writing and the mechanics of composition. By limiting the number of composition courses a candidate for honors may count towards his degree to one, the department seriously handicaps the student who is vitally interested in perfecting a good style and who desires to do original work along these lines...
...these neophytes are desirous of avoiding the hasty consideration of special fields of interest with the resultant disappointment and chagrin that so often follows last minute decisions, they will begin now to consider where their particular interest lies before urged to do so by University Hall bureaucrats. Harassed by distribution and language requirements the average Freshman gives little thought to concentration until these are successfully met. In many instances, which the Freshman may observe among unenthusiastic upperclassmen, fields of concentration are selected without much previous analysis of a student's own aptitudes or a knowledge of that with which...