Word: dying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Discussing the endeavor under way in various colleges of the East to relate football properly to the curriculum, the Cornell Daily Sun asks this question: "Is it the beginning of a general movement, or but a flurry which will die away, leaving the undergraduate world in as complacent enthusiasm about the pigskin as before...
Next day Chancellor Luther folded his arms while Foreign Minister Stresemann parried attacks by the Communists, the Nationalists and the ultra-reactionary Voelkische, stubborn faction of famed die-hard General von Ludendorff. At the conclusion of these forensic games an actual vote was hailed with relief by most of those present...
...same time one of the most preventable. But the world has got to be educated in the means of prevention. It is responsible for ulcers and finally cancer. Civilization itself is menaced by it. Of the whole population of Great Britain, at least 5,000,000 will die of cancer unless they are educated about health...
...four bachelors, Mr. Bojer follows across the sea to the virgin plain; follows them as they turn the first furrow in the prairie sod, as they build sod houses, as they suffer and labor and grow wealthy, as wooden houses replace their sod huts, as they grow old and die, dreaming of snowclad mountains, of waterfalls and steep fiords; follows, too, those who go back to their homes in Norway and those who return again to their homes in North Dakota, always homesick for homes across the sea wherever they may be and nearly always driven back to the flat...
...World Court. In the meetings to be held here, however, another and more far reaching problem will be discussed. This is the founding of a permanent organization, to deal with international affairs among students in Greater Boston institutions, so that interest in matters of world interest will not die with the final decision on the World Court...