Word: jealous
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...whether the additional expenditure would yield results sufficient to justify itself is an open question. That a jealous Congress and equally egotistic states would care to see the powers of the present Bureau of Education greatly expanded seems unlikely...
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...