Word: downtrodden
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Harvard's break with Princeton, commonly known as Princeton's break with Harvard, is really a blessing in disguise for a lot of downtrodden football teams and coaches who want some excuse to break off relations with a traditional rival that is hard to beat. There are many such schools and coaches that can now find the way, thanks to Harvard...
...judge from the cries of the politicos the Filipinos are downtrodden and all but enslaved by the brutal and rapacious Uncle Sam. The facts are that they enjoy as much or more independence than any people in Eastern Asia. Less than four per cent of the officials in the Philippines are Americans. These have been so shorn of their power that they are little more than figureheads in all matters of local government the Filipinos are in complete control. As a matter of fact the Filipino legislature has usurped a large measure of the powers assigned...
...college professors who organized the league to enforce peace have consciously or unconsciously fostered in every American college definite political organizations whose aim is similar to their own. Professors with strong proclivities toward social sympathy with the downtrodden have, by close association, fostered the development of strike leaders. Thus the professors themselves, so far as they have recognized their own trend in the student's leisure day, so far as they have applied their own knowledge to current problems, have produced the student movement of our time. This is recognized by the supporters of the unchanged order or things...
Helen Menken played the part, the same Helen Menken who for these many seasons has been playing the downtrodden French girl in Seventh Heaven. The new part is far more difficult and not so artfully woven round with that mysteriously effective element known as "theatre." Neither the play nor the actress was as excellent as many people hoped they would...
...FALL GUY-Wherein the poor and downtrodden tries to get rich abruptly and ends up as a real hard-boiled detective...