Word: ire
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Eclipse" ran a mile in 1 min. in 1741 in Ire...
President Eliot has excited the ire of some religious newspapers. The Guardian delicately observes: "As the maudlin president of Harvard once said in a post-prandial speech." The Christian at Work says: "It is simply untrue that 'seminaries bid against each other for young mendicants.' The language is as slanderous in spirit as it is offensive in form...
...unnecessary. It is all very well that complaints should in some cases be sent, and even when a condition has been received, but for a single 38 or 39 per cent., as long as the other marks were reasonably high, it really seems pretty hard to arouse the parental ire. The freshman maximum physics paper was unusually difficult, and naturally about one-half of the section failed. Some of these unfortunate men who passed in all other studies received 38 or 39 per cent. A notice was sent asking for "co-operation in impressing the importance of increased diligence...
President Barnard of Columbia lately spoke in disparaging terms of the proposed school at Athens. This moves the Times to ire and irony. It says: "Why should our young men go to Athens to study Greek? Is not American Greek good enough for Americans? The American system produces Hellenists like the Yale professors of Greek, who, going down to the Peiraens one day to make a bargain with a native waterman for a sail-boat to take him across the harbor, astonished the man by asking him for a 'transport-boat,' - something that would carry half a dozen regiments...
Mephisto will come in his terrible ire...