Word: ordeal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...minute organ recital in the Harvard Chapel every morning before the ordeal of final examinations to quiet jangled nerves is not such a fanciful idea as it may sound to skeptical hard heads...
...have myself been through the ordeal of receiving a degree in Sanders Theatre, and have heard from a goodly number of others their complaints concerning the exercises as conducted there. The general feeling seems to be that of dissatisfaction. This is caused by certain conditions imposed by the nature of the building. These conditions are, first, that each one receiving a degree may have but one ticket for guests, and secondly, that the atmosphere is usually suffocatingly hot and close. In my own case the ceremony was one of constant physical discomfort, relieved only by the thought that...
...Trying Ordeal for Colonels...
...Colonels are facing a trying ordeal. Never before have they played in a huge stadium lined with cheering thousands that have come to watch them prove their right to the fame they now enjoy; never before have they faced an eleven which possesses such a reputation for fighting qualities and winning ability. Whether the Centre team, realizing how much, for it, depends on victory, gets hurried and careless in the first minutes of play and thereby ruins its own chance is a question that is being asked by critics...
With possibly no exception Herbert Hoover is the only man who emerged from the ordeal of the Paris Conference with an increased reputation. His work of food conservation is so well known in this country that it even seems to hide from many people the magnificent work which the commission acting under his guidance accomplished for our Allies abroad. Aside from the humanitarian point of view, Hoover was one of the very great material factors which this country lent toward defeating the common enemy. Furthermore, let us never forget the extraordinary assistance afforded Europe in the first half...