Word: regretful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Those who have the cause of church unity at heart cannot help expressing profound regret at the encyclical, no matter how much it was to be expected; for the friendly and understanding attitude of such outstanding Romanists as Cardinal Mercier and his successor, who since the war have been periodically conferring with certain Angelicans on the subject of unity, have led us to hope that Rome was about to abandon its medieval intransigence...
...deeply regret the breach in athletic relations and the loss of the thrill that came with every contest against Princeton, but even more keenly do I regret that the fault in the matter appears to have been chiefly Harvard...
...prone to believe, however, that those who own remaining drawings by Turner would feel a very real regret at the loss of the bulk of the artist's work, in spite of the pecuniary advantage to themselves. They will undoubtedly cling with anxiety to the straw of hope held out by experts that perhaps the major part of the Tate collection was not destroyed...
...declared that he resigned because of "a sense of regret at my inability to accomplish anything." The opinion was general that if so great a statesman cannot work with his recent colleagues there will have to be a general reshuffle of the Cabinet when the Nationalist Party Congress shortly convenes in Nanking...
...accident the curious, excited crowd impedes the recovery of the injured, so in the sinking of the S-1 there was much shouting and treading on toes that made painful a tragic circumstance, and that brings, now that panic struck hope has turned to quiet sorrow, a flood of regret and retraction. In an interview in this paper. Commander R. C. Grady deplores this troublesome intervention on the part of laymen entirely ignorant of the facts, and declares that the Navy has done everything possible to safeguard the lives of in submarines. Yesterday, even as President Coolidge insisted that...