Word: ordeal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...members of rival fraternities, challenge each other to duels just as here a football team of one university plays against another. It is a test of nerve. Skill is of course also essential; the unskillful carries his mark for life. But he is proud of having gone through the ordeal, and ordeal...
...authority on his subject. He is able for one whole morning to command a set of facts with a reasonable precision. And if the instructor selected the questions shrewdly, the student may even be forced to some constructive thinking. Too often, however, the net result of the three hour ordeal is a series of ill-assorted facts set forth in hastily garbled English...
...leaders to promise that they would restrain their cohorts from too many embarrassing questions. The Deputies filed into the Chamber itself. President Zitovsky declared Parliament in session: "Not since the Treaty of Trianon was imposed upon Hungary at the close of the War, have we gone through such an ordeal as now. . . . This scandal is inflicting colossal harm upon our country. We owe it to her prestige, nay to her very existence, to see that this dastardly crime is expiated." Premier Bethlen arose. The Deputies leaped to their feet and created such an uproar that Parliament had to be temporarily...
...local priest, one Kosheliev, caused the suspected culprits to be immersed in a freezing stream for an hour, and then beaten into insensibility. This did not however constitute the "ordeal," which depended upon whether those being "tried" recovered consciousness during the night (innocent) or at dawn (guilty...
...like the peasants of Zitlieff, Mr. Mencken aims for truth through the application of ordeal. He would delight to see the noble folk at sundown, beating their suspects into unconsciousness before the bar of justice. This is not the ordeal, however. The ordeal is to recover consciousness. And nothing could be more systematically fitted to the American critic's haphazard dicta than the impartially unjust manner in which the natives pronounce judgment. He who comes to his senses during the night is innocent; he who awakes at dawn is guilty...