Word: disgusted
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Apparently Harvard must suffer continually from the thieving of men who seem to make a regular profession of picking pockets, lockers and in fact of appropriating to themselves whatever they can safely lay their hands upon. It is useless to waste words in trying to express the disgust and contempt which everyone feels for such specimens of humanity. It is supposed that a man contemptible enough to steal is proof against any sensitiveness at the epithets which might justly be heaped upon him. We sincerely wish he were not, for it would be a pleasure to try to make...
These are the last words of the Bible, yet they sum up all that goes before. To many young men there comes a feeling of dissatisfaction. From this they pass on through a feeling of disgust to a feeling of self consciousness. Such a young man has reached a crises. His soul is on the border land of a great discovery. The real meaning and secret of his being is that his life is allied to the life of God, and that the life of God is ready to express itself. Nothing could satisfy him except the life...
...spirit. - (a) Pensions given through gratitude have been called a debt: G. B. Raum, Pensions and patriotism in North Amer. Review, Vol. 153, p. 213, Aug. 1891. - (b) It has accustomed the people to fight for rewards and not for patriotism: Pres. Cleveland's message. - (c) It has aroused disgust at the mercenary spirit of veterans: Weekly Tribune, July...
...years has been a sad one. The races could but result as they have. This fact is self-evident to any man with eyes, and why it has not been apparent to our crews is the inquiry on the lips of every graduate All this has filled me with disgust. This disgust is so intense that it rather amuses me to have a letter of mine on the subject misunderstood. I fancied that I felt so strongly that I could write what I felt...
...wish to call the attention of the officers of the Athletic Association to the general dissatisfaction of the members with the prizes which were recently given out. Much disgust has been expressed by the winners of last fall's races with the cups given as first prizes. They are inferior to the cups given heretofore and do not bear the seal of the association...