Word: delighted
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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These words gave free traders a thrill of delight. But the party of privileged trade-preventers, masquerading as "protectionists," thought that the President was uttering a platitude, and that nothing would come of it. But the President is not of that class; on January 8, addressing Congress, he proposed "the removal, so far as possible, of all economic barriers...
...which we should like to forget through the result of today's game. The war has made us fairly liberal in athletics, and we now maintain publicly that we want to see the best team win. Yet we have not become so militarily impartial that we take any particular delight in having Yale win. We want the Freshmen to administer to our friends a good drubbing and we think they can do it. But they can accomplish this only through the hardest kind of playing every minute of the game. There must not be an instant when a Crimson player...
...reflect on the delight of that state where a man of tender and delicate conscience was spared the debasing and unspiritual task of work. We would all turn Shakers then, crying down the militarism of pick and shovel...
...Russian revolution was hailed in this country with the most exuberant delight. The mass of people stated with confidence that now Russia was rid of her pro-German autocracy, and would fight unhindered with the other great free peoples of the earth against the thraldom of Germany...
...note with delight your editorial entitled "Compulsory Latin Must Go," as it seems to us the statement of a sage educational policy and is clearly the work of a man who knows the classics well and only turns from them after giving them a thorough trial...