Word: agents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...disease and given aid to thousands of fisherman who have been held up on ice floes on the Labrador Coast. He and his assistants cared for over 12,000 patients in one year in their eight hospitals on land and the five on sea. Moreover, being almost the sole agent of civilization in the bleak north, his work has been extended so that he now operates a children's home, two industrial stations, and three clothing distribution centers, with each of which peculiar and illuminating problems are connected...
...needs it. The Fall resolution is a pernicious piece of jingoism, concocted by a self-styled defender of American honor, which proposes that we go to war with the rest of the American continent to atone for the deaths and insults to such men as our consular agent Jenkins and others, whose conduct has been such that, were they here, they would be where many of our unscrupulous profiteers and despoilers will be in the near future. I do not defend the murders of those Americans who were foully and in cold blood assassinated by bandits; but, from personal observation...
...unsophisticated Freshmen tell their tale of woe to unsympathetic upperclassmen who are sadder but wiser from personal experience. A boundless field exists for those who take such pains to favor guileless students with their marvelously discounted wares. Cigars are not the only bargains. Recently we have welcomed the financial agent and his alluring pictures of profitable speculation. Many of us, unfortunately, can testify to his convincing arguments on doubling or trebling the initial...
Harcourt, Brace and Howe are publishing a school edition of "Typee." In fostering interest in the sale of this masterpiece, an inspired press agent has this to say: "Young Tom and Long John Silver are masters of so many hearts that they need fear no rival. Yet Treasure Island with all its largess of romance falls short of exhausting the store. Some of the things Stevenson missed, Herman Melville found in the South Seas--and wrote "Typee." Days of the fear of sudden death; days of drowsy, warm forgetfulness; dark seas curling over glistening sands; amber sun-light through...
...Young Tom" doesn't recall anything in "Treasure Island."--perhaps it was young Jim Hawkins that the enthusiastic press agent meant; but we are in favor of anything that will introduce "Moby Dick" and "Typee" to the schoolboy of the future generation...