Word: fraught
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sooner or later college authorities, even at Yale, will come to realize that the attempt to make nobility of character depend upon an antiquated theory of the universe which no educated man believes, is fraught with very serious consequences. When a young student's awakened intellect rejects the metaphysics of his teaching, what then is to save him from throwing aside, as also without justification, his ideas of duty and morality which he was told were inseparable from that metaphysics...
...delighted that the negotiations which lasted longer than a year and which were fraught with many difficulties and uncertainties, finally have borne fruit...
With the possible exception of the Treaty of Versailles, no event within the last ten years is fraught with such momentous significance to the newspaper reading public as this last edition of the Yale riot. Certain facts concerning Yale are now established once...
...pages personally edited by Harry Houdini, President of the Society of American Magicians. Red this magic section was-red with ink. Magic this section was not, save as parlor tricks and picture puzzles are magical. One was not taught how to exorcise satanic presences, to stir a cauldron fraught with "eye of newt and tov.gue of toad," to draw a charmed circle or utilize the mystical phases of the moon. "Magic" was used in its popular, journalistic sense in naming the new section. And a popular, highly successful journalistic departure the new section promised to be. It reminded readers...
...sharpening of this division, indicated by these two present events, is fraught with great import to the peace of the Pacific. The deepening of the gulf between east and west seems inevitably to lead to a gigantic conflict of racially hostile nations, its gradual effacement to peaceful tolerance. And only by voluntary limitation of imperialistic ambitions can the nations of the Pacific find that road to peace...