Word: hunger
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...made up of the young men of Paris, who were not at all inured to the hardships of war, and who were armed with a gun just introduced and with the action of which they were entirely unacquainted. The troops around Paris were exposed to great hardships, from both hunger and cold, and in moving from one place to another were forced, on account of the number of men and the narrowness of the roads, to stand waiting almost for hours before being able to move forward. This proved even more fatiguing than constant marching...
Until about six years ago nothing was known of the religion of the people of the first dynasties. Every dead person had a double, which was subject to hunger, fatigue and mortality. The double was very similar to the manes of the Romans and food and raiment was set aside to appease their wants. One of the first laws was that without divine help man could rise above animal brutishness...
...State the distinction drawn by Hartmann in his Philosophic des Unbewussten between hunger on the one hand, and the tooth-ache or grief at the loss of a friend on the other...
Newspaper reporters were the only persons who were at the gymnasium yesterday to attend the meeting of those wishing to form a polo club. Harvard's indifference in regard to rink polo and the reporter's hunger after news were the conspicuous features of the meeting...
...water to amply supply the system. Foods are divided into the nitrogenous or gluten-bearing class, such as meats, and the non-nitrogenous such as fats, starch, sugar, etc. A brain worker requires more fats, and a muscle worker more nitrogenous foods. Over brain exercise sometimes produces insensibility to hunger, and students, after light suppers and long night study, find themselves unable to sleep, although not conscious of lack of food. A light lunch is often a cure for this condition, and is to be advised after prolonged mental effort. The average man requires the food elements in about...