Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...passive resistance of the peasantry." The Russian peasant has become stuffed with paper money and has refused to give his wheat in exchange for it. This has resulted in the Bolshevists confiscating and nationalizing the wheat. Now the peasants will fight for their wheat, will hide it, will burn it, but will never give it to the Bolsheviki...
...abolished. It can't be destroyed, it seems. Possibly, if it stands 100 or 200 years longer, it may acquire architectural merit; may come to be recognized as "uaint" or "venerable." The taste of generations differs; and our descendants may learn to adore what we should have liked to burn...
Bless my stars he works "only eight hours a day", he has "money to burn", he "throws to the winds his money and himself". Now I ask you, where in the devil do we get the right to pass such a judgement on a chap who, if nothing else, is at least a producer How many hours a day do we actually work--if mastering usless data that we take care to forget as quickly as possible can be called work? And how do most of us spend our leisure time which the working youth ought to consecrate...
...situations; and the end is not yet. Within the past decades, we have seen the phenomenon of youths not yet out of their 'teens earning wages as mill operatives that not long ago would have been considered princely. And thereon hangs a problem. These beardless youths have money to burn; they have plenty of leisure--they work only eight hours a day--but they have not the background of education that teaches them to use that leisure to best advantage, for they have left school as soon as the law allows. And so they throw to the winds their money...
Playing at the Bare Burn Country Club, West Newton yesterday, the University gold team overcame Dartmouth 6-3. Only two of the singles matches went to Dartmouth, McKee defeating C. W. Baker '22 one up in 19 holes, and Rothschild taking one match from Havemeyer, four and two. In the foursomes, Captain F. McN. Bacon '21 and Baker gave Boyd and McKee a hard fight but were finally defeated one up. In the match, Gerald Henderson '21 and C. F. Havemeyer '22 vs. Frost and Rothschild, the University players, were forced to 21 holes before they...