Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...practice the results of careful work, and vigorous determination to win or die hard. But great are the uncertainties of base-ball! Yale entered the contest confident of victory; a confidence theoretically well founded, but practically disastrous to reputation and pocket. Harvard, on the other hand, had learned by bitter experience the danger of excessive confidence, and knew that the game could alone be won by steady, persistent work. This feeling, with the added inspiration of surroundings, time, and place, gave our fellows an impetus toward success that was irresistible, and that swept their opponents into almost nothingness...
...awful bitter pill...
...winter cheerless sorrow made the cold more bitter still...
...leave us to our fate, in bitter scorn...
...bitter cup, and pray for our poor sake...