Word: disgusted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roman history throws a tremendous light on the history of today, and is in itself very valuable and important in the history and civilization of the world. But who learns enough Latin to read more than a couple of great works of old so slowly and painfully that only disgust remains? And who learns Roman history in the Latin tongue anyway? And who ever reads the thousands of Christian writers of Latin during the succeeding centuries? Professor Hammond may do so, but certainly the requirement does not enforce these benefits on those striving for A.B. degrees...
...went to Europe again on a Guggenheim Fellowship. An omnivorous reader, he says of his hero "Within a period of ten years he read at least 20,000 volumes." After futile searches for "a place to write," Thomas Wolfe is at present living in Brooklyn. Says Eugene, in autobiographical disgust: " 'To write'-to be that most foolish, vain, and impotent of all impostors, a man who sought the whole world over 'looking for a place to write', when, he knew now with every naked, brutal penetration of his life 'the place to write...
...bandages from our feebly protesting star and tied him up with the Princeton half-hitch. That was all very well until, after the squad hit Cambridge again, our hero, smiling through his tears, visited Dillon Field House to have some attention paid to the injured member. A cry of disgust rent the air. "Who the HELL did that job?" said a pained voice, and the trainer lunged for the bandages...
...long-drawn and emphatic, was in former days on the CRIMSON an expression of disgust and despair. I hope that much survives...
...they get a thorough grounding in Marx, Lenin and Stalin, for the circus, like every medium of Soviet entertainment, is also a medium of propaganda. All loyal clowns try to make their buffoonery a satire on the enemies of the Party without, inefficient bureaucrats within. To the infinite disgust of old and unsympathetic moujiks who go to the circus for amusement, the eager young graduates of the Technicum of Circus Art like nothing better than to drop their fun-making and stunts, put on a pageant of the class struggle...