Word: epithets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...epithet "Big Three" in football came unsought for and unasked. So far as we may speak for the appellation we did not sponsor, the reason for it appears to consist in the fact that of all educational institutions who have consistently set forth teams of the highest caliber, there are no other three who have, by reason of an inevitable bond of sympathy shared in common, liked best to beat each other. --Yale Daily News...
...political and industrial theory, is being branded as revolutionary. Doubtless in times of over-fast development there are very real dangers incurred by the idle patter of "parlor bolshevists." But in times of reaction from liberalism such as the present there are still greater dangers in applying the epithet "parlor bolshevist" to anyone who dares assert an independent opinion. If this nation and the whole world do not watch their step carefully, the next decade will usher in a period of suppression on such a scale that in comparison the age of Metternich will appear as a mad whirl...