Word: hurte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...precious pasteboard, he was sport enough to be a good loser when necessary. But now that there has been added to this a financial question, he may feel that his sporting chance has been supplanted by a plutocratic rule. His loyalty will not waver, but he may feel hurt that his chance to cheer for, fight for, and support his team has been put on a money premium, and that his fair alma mater has taken to playing favorites. This is especially true of the younger alumni to whom the dollar seems more than a curiously designed symbol. And unfortunately...
This feature of the pending bridge law is the work of influential Harvard men, former oarsmen among them. In the necessary repair of the Cottage Farm Bridge, they saw the opportunity to remove a vexatious hindrance of which they were thoroughly cognizant. The move can hurt no interest whatever, and benefits others than the University. Besides creating out of hand a two-mile regatta course, the provisions of the measure will make the Charles more freely navigable for small pleasure craft...
...National Conference on Street and Highway Safety called by Secretary Hoover for March 23. Mr. Coolidge reminded the Governors: "I scarcely need to refer to the importance of the subjects at issue. Nearly 24,000 of our citizens were killed and probably more than 500,000 were hurt by street and highway accidents during the last year...
Scowling, muttering, grumbling among themselves, some U. S. artists paced their studios. They were not merely annoyed; they felt grieved and hurt. On the upper end of Manhattan Island a vast edifice was arising, the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, which had been conceived and financed not solely as a monument to religion, but as a monument to U. S. religion, supported by all creeds and classes, a monument to and by U. S. art, an expression of the nation's creative genius in the 20th Century...
...million faithful in his see, urging them to patriotism and endurance. German chiefs writhed before his exclamations; respected him; could testify upon their final withdrawal: "You embody to us occupied Belgium, of which you are the pastor venerated and listened to." The German wrecking of Louvain, his old university, hurt him deeply, a hurt consoled much by reconstruction from...