Word: jealous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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impressive sights in the world, some jealous person falsely circulated that Mrs. Hylan remarked: 'Queen, you said a mouthful...
...activities more noxious than the cultivated equivalent of free seed distribution. The legislative branch of the government which several times has made abortive attempts to weaken the Supreme court is not likely to confer unseemly authority on a newly created department. With only the powers granted by a jealous Congress, the bureau could have little autocratic influence on the schools of the nation...
...considerable hue and cry has been raised during the past two weeks over reports and rumors concerning what Professor Kemmerer did or did not think about Poland. Premature despatches gave the impression that he was about to return and paint the Polish fiscal situation in glowing colors. German correspondents, jealous of the tide of U. S. investments which they imagined this would turn in the direction of Poland, flayed Professor Kemmerer for "dashing over to report on Poland's finances, while his classes are taking their Christmas recess." Historians recalled that the Poles have been "pulling through" under adversity...
...fifths of which, at least, belonged to Ludendorff. . . . In every heart, on every tongue, there was but one name, Hindenburg. . . . Every maid in the most distant forester's lodge knew that head, which the people call 'a majestic brow of thunder,' and the Kaiser, in his jealous rage, termed 'a sergeant...
...need to dwell at length upon the consequences which have been wrought by the American system. The inertia of the mass has been a constant drag upon the initiative of those students whose capacities and preparation justify a raising of academic standards. But at the same time a jealous public has resisted, in the name of their "inalienable rights", the exclusions which follow the tendency to raise standards, to enhance appreciation of matters of the intellect, in brief, to make universities true institutions of higher learning...