Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...full poignancy of wandering and the wanderlust cannot be appreciated unless one has a home. The Marines are, by nature of their calling, wanderers. But they have a home; it is Quantico, Va., their great training ground, the place from which they go forth in war and peace to the ends of the round earth. Now it is proposed that the Marines should own their own home...
...subject of the Nativity will be given this year instead of an English miracle as in the past two years. Eduardo Sanchez '26, president of the club, has translated the piece from the old French; and in order to give the proper mediaeval atmosphere, the cathedral back-ground in the Germanic Museum will be used as a stage...
...ideals, castes, and satisfactions of business are as dust and ashes. These men claim a share in that human inheritance which Harvard once stood for: they seek those foundations of thought that reach down to the centre of life. Yet as they approach you, they find that the ground beneath their feet is in a flux. They come to escape from Pittsburgh and they find Hollywood. What will such men do when they begin to realize that you have no interest in the things they seek, and no interest in the seekers themselves, save to get money from them...
...only hope. Kuba, companioned only by a dog, lay in the stable, listening to the sounds of feasting and merriment, to the wedding-guests too busy with laughter and drinking to heed him. Terrified at thought of the hospital, he took matters into his own hands. He ground an ax to a sharp edge, placed his leg on the threshold, chopped twice, severed it at the knee...
...whole round of peasant life, a brilliant picture of Polish nature ... the tragic sense of the elemental forces which dominate the efforts of the tillers of the soil." The work is truly epic in its scope, a carefully worked, heroic pattern. It is a sweeping view of Poland, ground under the imperial heel of Russia...