Word: ordeal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Keynes says in "Economic Consequences of the Peace," page 274: "Mr. Hoover is the only man who emerged from the ordeal of Paris with enhanced reputation." This, however, is less impressive than that no voice has been raised in complaint against the man who was for five years the chief personality in the regulation of the food supply of the world...
...full brunt of the burden. With it, a student will plough deeper into the field of his particular major study and will gain a correspondingly broadened perspective of the realm of related knowledge. Without it, he will be ground with the rest to a dead average by a uniform ordeal of "stuffing," irrespective of his aptitude and needs...