Word: vicious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These two opinions--the low value set on scholastic achievement and the belief that it is easy to obtain--work in a vicious circle which lowers the prestige of the scholar...
...Linder Jr. '19 presided at the meeting and introduced as the first speaker Demarest Lloyd, president of the Loyal Coalition of Boston. Mr. Lloyd outlined some of the reasons for action against the vicious influences at work today in American politics, particularly those endeavoring to use the United States as a tool to meddle in the domestic affairs of Great Britain for the furthering of the movement for an "Irish Republic" in the heart of that Empire...
...force, the other will inevitably retaliate. Where the employer calls for detectives, the police, or the militia, the workers are bound to arm themselves and adopt violent methods in their strike. Where the workers go armed, the employer is bound to call in additional force; and the vicious circle widens indefinitely, each side alleging self-protection as the cause for its acts. The recent series of affrays in Matewan, West Virginia, have already cost a dozen lives, detectives, strikers, and peaceful citizens being numbered among the slain. Such futile affairs as this need never occur, if only employer and employee...
...would seem that the only way to have a silent strike called off is by giving the raise in wages. Yet the very success conceded by such action is a vigorous provocative to repetition. A vicious circle of strike and pay increases is established. The public is as assuredly defrauded as ever it is by a Rivers and Harbors Bill...
Yesterday afternoon Playing Manager A. T. Hill '20's vicious willow-wielders slammed the untried Junior team into the proverbial cocked hat, tallying 15 runs to their lonely 1. Stan Johnson, the husky mounder for the Cap and Gown men, completely mystified the Junior batters. He was ably supported by an airtight infield composed of Falvey, Monroe and Dickson. Although the game dragged along for the first few sessions, the Seniors started things going in the seventh inning, when they knocked four pitchers completely...