Word: hungering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seem that the College appreciated the undergraduate's desire to get an education. But the existence of such mechanical contrivances as enforced attendance and disciplinary hour examinations would lead one to the belief that the College still considered itself a strong armed compulsory feeder and the undergraduate an intellectual hunger-striker. Moreover the requirements for modern languages still in force prove that the Faculty still considers these languages as hurdles to be leapt--and left behind--in a cross-country race for a degree, rather than as tools to be utilized in the building of a man's mind...
...militarism. I Went to Russia," Mr. Eddy said, "and found there a warning against old imperialism. As I came through the Ruhr, I saw around me the potent causes of war. I saw the banks being robbed, and I saw the tightening grips of a possible hunger famine. I felt it was a danger zone of militarism...
...syndicalist and revolutionist. The police referred to her respectfully as "Mme. Trouble, Europe's most dangerous woman." In 1908 she defied royalty by remaining seated when King Carlos of Portugal entered the Lisbon International Peace Conference. Four years later she headed the women's hunger march on Tower Hill in London during the dockers' strike. She had many remarkable escapes from mobs...
...should a child first laugh aloud?" "When should a child walk alone?" "How many teeth are there in the first set?" "Why should mothers nurse their children?" "Is rocking (in sleep) necessary?" "How much crying is normal for a very young baby?" "What is the cry of pain?-of hunger?-of temper?-of illness?-of indulgence or habit...
...Professor Harlow said: "I have seen countless students, many of them dressed in patched and tattered army uniforms, with clothes fit only for the warmth of a summer day, all through the countries of the Balkans, central Europe, and Asia Minor. Their faces are usually pinched with cold and hunger; in many of the student countries I have found tuberculosis prevalent. In Russia alone last summer there were more than forty thousand students and professors lacking warm clothes or sufficient food to keep them, above the starvation level. What must be their condition today in the middle of a bitter...