Word: hungered
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...limit in extending to the stricken people every sort of succor or assistance that is open to us. The ties between Nova Scotia and its capital and our State and city are close and warm. The consequences of the disaster, in physical suffering and very likely in hunger, must be instant and terrible. Let us start our help at once. The railway and the sea should bear it even before set of sun. Boston Transcript...
...first time since civilization has been in possession of the means of transportation to foster commerce, Europe faces actual hunger. Great nations are knowing the failure of sufficient nourishment to feed their peoples. In three years of war the most powerful races of the earth have been reduced from a state of astounding opulence to a condition where their very lives may depend upon their ability to obtain food. In such a condition of universal and terrible lack, which is the forerunner of starvation, the United States, whose resources our rhetoricians are fond of calling unlimited, is called upon...
...University books to themselves do not think. A sense of conscience which is blunted ceases to be a sense; it is simply inert matter. Probably food speculators do not reflect on the ultimate consequences when they raise the price of life's necessities. But their lack of thought makes hunger no less bitter to those who are deprived. Personal gain is behind the food speculator and the book thief alike. But the books in the Widener Library are to be shared by all, they are community property, and a good citizen must always think of his community...
There are deeds they hunger alone...
...close relationship between professor and student. As one of our eminent Harvard graduates has said, "It is worth all the school's cost if the long discipline brings each one of us into living touch with one real instructor, one whose word reaches the soul and creates that hunger of the mind whose satisfaction is our education." Such friendship is of mutual benefit, for it ennobles the student and it humanizes the instructor...