Word: rancour
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long-vexed problem of the commuters--the source of so much rancour and quibbling--has now been satisfactorily solved, at least in its most obvious aspects--by the announcement that Dudley Hall will be remodelled during the summer to provide dining, study, and recreation rooms for the day-students. Brooks House and the Commuters' Committee have achieved complete success as the result of persistent and intelligent effort; University Hall has also cooperated, ponderously yet conscientiously. The new Center in Dudley Hall should end all agitation for the admission of commuters to the Houses by providing pleasant and comfortable quarters...
...lack of agreement between nations as to the settlement of the "fruits" of the last. The college student of today is conscious of the World War only as on historical paradox. Even those of us who lost relatives in that futile struggle have long since ceased to nurse any rancour, other than that arising from the misery and despair we see all round us, for which we must hold our elders responsible. We have no bone to pick with other peoples, so long as they let us live our lives in peace...