Word: rancorous
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...attention has been brought to an article on the Boston Police Strike by one Arthur Warner, which appeared in "The Nation" during the recent Christmas recess. Says Mr. Warner: "I found that partisanship and rancor had permeated almost every circle, even to Harvard University, the president of which had offered one thousand students (who fortunately never appeared) to take the places of absent police, while one of the lecturers had addressed a gathering of policemen's wives so sympathetically that a number of graduates were demanding, under pain of not contributing to the endowment fund, that his mouth be stopped...