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Word: compassionate (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Most interesting of all. Professor Haskins found to be the personal letters of student to father or father to student. Requests for money predominated the letters addressed to fathers. In fact, rhetoricians made a respectable income by writing for students letters guaranteed to arouse compassion. One student added at the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DESCRIBES UNIVERSITY LIFE OF MIDDLE AGES | 4/3/1923 | See Source »

Mr. Sothern's Hamlet is appealing because of the utter despondency and unrelieved pathos in which he plays it, yet though it strains the sympathy of the observer almost to the breaking point it fails to arouse a feeling of fellowship. The sad compassion one feels for the miserable unfortunates...

Author: By S. L., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 10/8/1921 | See Source »

The rounding up and deportation of the Reds is one of the most timely jobs that the government has undertaken in a long time. It is a job that will be commended by all true Americans, whether they be native-born or naturalized. If our doors are to be continuously...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ousting the Reds | 1/14/1920 | See Source »

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