Word: calloused
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Albert Mazarak, callous Jersey City dweller, spaded recently in his back yard beneath a neighbor's inquiring...
...Peruvian wept in silence, many another sobbed aloud, as José Santos Chocano, "The Poet of America," the literary idol of Peru, was sentenced last week to three years' imprisonment for killing one of his enemies in what he alleged to be self-defense. While his countrymen sympathize, callous-minded foreigners may think that for José to have reached the age of 51 and have thus far escaped assassination or the gallows is a miracle...
...more delectable women, recreates himself, abandons the women to his soldiers, departs with the lion's share of loot. The women, dragged to the soldiers' camps, are "staked out with ropes and pegs." Such acts -typical of every war-were given scant attention by callous humans last week...
...undergone were common to great numbers of college undergraduates it would not be too much to expect a virtual revolution in their political and economic creeds. A summer in a canning factory can cure for a lifetime as well impracticable economic idealism as the more common fault of a callous social conscience...
...whereon football, which died with the abolition of the Freshman-Sophomore "Bloddy Monday" contest, revived 15 years later and gradually grew to vast proportions, hazing never regained a foot, hold in the University, and the Freshmen of today, unlike the callous first year debaters of last year, and thankful accordingly...