Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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This system of "budgetary limitation" was championed from the first by France, opposed for years by Great Britain, opposed to the bitter end by Mr. Gibson. He abstained from voting when this basic clause passed the Preparatory Commission, then attached a U. S. reservation exhorting the forthcoming World Disarmament Conference to reconsider...
...personal disappointments or bitter memories prompt this attack, but rather four compelling reasons: (1) Cramming is a slipshod, superficial method of review, deadens undergraduate initiative, and places a premium on merely getting by. (2) In view of the fact that only certain types of exam questions can be asked and that these can easily be spotted by experienced tutors, cramming by Hun puts University examiners under the temptation of trapping the trapper and giving tests that will beat Hun and fail everybody. (3) Shallow tutoring is foreign to the purpose of all worth-while study, encourages habits of mental laziness...
...Sydney Smith more than a century ago is well remembered; and he was not the first, as certainly he was not the last, to deride us. James Bryce handed down an indictment or two and Siegfried and others have expanded his question into volumes. The tone has become more bitter since the United States became the creditor of Europe. The critics make few allowances for the youth of the nation. They compare our developing civilization with the crystallized customs of countries which were mellowed when Americans were felling the forests and striving for mastery over nature. American culture is still...
...population count (total: 122,775,046). The Constitution provides that the House shall be altered to fit the population every ten years. Rural members of Congress, eyeing jealously the people's concentration in big cities, blocked the 1920 reapportionment and only authorized the 1930 change after a bitter struggle last year (TIME, Dec. 31, 1928 et seq.). It was voted to change the number of people whom one Congressman shall represent, not the number of Representatives (435) in Congress. The 1930 census revealed that this change must be from 211,000 persons per Congressman to 280,000. Unless...
...bagging of Colyumist Smith ended six years of persistent stalking by McNaught's General Manager Charles V. McAdam. The fight with rival syndicates was bitter at the finish. Hardly was the ink dry on the contract when orders for the Smith colyum began to pour in. Among the first to buy it: Scranton Republican, Boston Globe, Louisville Herald-Post...