Word: unpleasanter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This is the usual unpleasant spectacle of the persecuted Freshman hazing the next class as soon as he is a Sophomore. For fourteen decades the quarrel of state and national governments has dragged through courts and congresses and war. Recent years have seen the states quietly increasing their own jurisdiction...
H. G. Wells and Bertrand Russell, seeing everywhere harbingers of Western obsolescence, nevertheless resist this unpleasant evidence with faith in the perpetual constructive force of human will & intellect. Oswald Spengler of Munich scorns such precarious optimism as only another instance of the pathetic pride which Romans, Egyptians and Orientals felt...
Gadflies. Besides its busy, responsible bees, the House has several gadflies-members who are constantly stirring up trouble, trying to force unpleasant issues. They have little or no influence in the House management and shine only on the floor where their quips get into the newspapers. Foremost of these is...
Now that the football season is happily over and the Senior Class is about to elect their Class Day officers, it seems an appropriate time to bring up an unpleasant incident in the Class Day exercises last June, 1928.
It was difficult to prophesy election results in Philadelphia. The effect of Philadelphia's bootleg investigation had to be considered (TIME, Sept. 17 et seq.). In that citadel of Vare Republicanism the Volstead act carried all its ghostly, malevolent outriders. Flagrant police corruption had been exposed. Suspects in higher...