Word: fraught
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coolidge in the eyes of fickle politicians? Would his hopes for a third term fade? These are interesting speculations. If shorn of his home support, the President should remain in the saddle, he would afford an instance of party control remarkable in American history The coming campaign which is fraught with such intriguing possibilities will be more zestfully watched than is usually the case with senatorial battles...
...south can be imagining nothing so wild as conflict to secure their racial dignity. It is much more likely that the progress of Pan Latinism will find the Latins trying to emulate the more successful features of northern society, its industry, its educational standards, possibly, although the supposition is fraught with interesting doubts, its political stability...
...tolerated by his classes with the same coldness as he himself radiates. Such a professor seems to have forgotten that all knowledge--science, philosophy, history, literature, religion--all had their origin in the problems of human life. Such a professor needs to learn that his facts become vital, and fraught with meaning and importance, only when they are thrown into relief against these problems...
...this street, an age old air of dignity and of sociability; here was a carven stone, fraught with history; there a quickly opened door let out a stream of light and gallant voices. All around me--I knew and I could feel it in the air--flowed the choicest hours of college. Here were the dormitories and club-houses, here were the college papers and magazines, here were the clubs of all kinds, and some of the athletic buildings. Such a mixture of work and fun I sensed that the breeze felt crisp and joyful with youth. This...
...Sept 14 issue of TIME pleading for more simple English words" may be only that one reader's request, but won't you please consider those of us who delight in coming upon new or unusual words? To me, a perusal of your incomparable paper is fraught with hid den joys because of the sport attendant on sedulously ferreting out the meaning of such refreshingly unusual expressions. When I read TIME, a modern dictionary is usually at hand; otherwise, I mark the words as I happen upon them...