Word: dies
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lives by headlines. If newspapers were abolished, he would curl up and die. I know he will read this with delight and paste it away in his scrapbook. That's why I am writing...
...tolerant intelligence have overlooked certain matters which might have advanced public enlightenment more than the hate-songs of these blasphemous preverters of American liberties they do not realize that each man is no citizen of the world as well as of the United States; that six hundred thousand people, die annually from diseases preventable by public cooperation; that lawless murder has killed in the last ten years more Americans than all five foreign wars. But the perpetrators of the childlike insult to adult intelligence are not interested in real problems, they want only to affright the masses and enhance...
...French estimation, to be director of La Comédie Francaise is to reach the pinnacle of the theatre world. But many there are who prefer France's second national theatre, the Odeon; for, in spite of its less famous history, it has managed to retain a certain air that is pure to all ages. Perhaps that is due to its surroundings rather than to its associations...
When the referee blows his whistle and the Crimson takes the field against the Orange and Black, there will be one unseen participant who will take part in the fight with Old 'Nassau. In the plays of the University team, in the "do or die" spirit that it displays, and in the coaching it has received, the hand of Percy Duncan Haughton will everywhere be evident. As originator of his famous system, of which the present University team is partly a product, Haughton has become an inseparable part of Harvard football...
...knell of all political parties based on class distinctions, Mr. Williams declared that any such contention is wrong. "The Labor party in England is too strongly entrenched to suffer permanently from this defeat," he said. "I do think, however, that the La Follette Progressive Party in this country will die because it is opposed by the American Federation of Labor...