Word: hungers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...believe that modern war is not an efficient instrument of protection. It seems likely that long-range guns, aerial bombs, both explosive and gaseous, and hunger blockades would so develop that the slaughter behind the lines would exceed that at the front...
...benefit of this Fund in December, and the appeal to all university men is the strongest that can possibly be made, because it comes to us on behalf of young men of our kind in foreign universities who are endeavoring to secure an education under the terrible handicaps of hunger and lack of clothing to say nothing of other deprivations, and of hard pressing economies which they must daily practice...
...Before you I stand, a student, starving while attending school. Starvation has forced me to pick from garbage cans pieces of herring, and to eat hay and pieces of paper to satiate the guawing pangs of hunger." Professor S. Ralph Barlow '08 of Smith College yesterday gave a CRIMSON reporter the above state- ment, made to him by a Russian student, as an illustration from his own experience of the plight of students in European universities. For ten years Professor Harlow was a professor in Smyrna, and during the last three years he has been in charge of the Student...
...Disappointing There has always been something immediately stirring, especially romantic for me in the mere mention of a Norwegian fjord. Perhaps that is because Thor and Loki were companions of earliest childhood. Nor will I ever forget the surveys and power of the first chapter of The Great Hunger. It had the breadth of sky and the mystery of rock and sea. To meet the author of such a book is necessarily a little disappointing. Bojer is slow, slight, would be almost dapper, were it not for keenness of eye, vigor of movement and ruggedness of countenance. He speaks English...
...interesting to hear stories of her youth--how one day she had to steal some "polenta" to appease her hunger when playing Juliet how she played to an empty house on her first appearance at Vienna in "La Dame aux Camelias" and to an over-flowing audience the next night how she always scorned jewels and adornment, and how she made such expressive use of her hands that legend relates she would sometimes "lay them to rest within a velvet box" after a performance. Those who see her in either of her two Boston performances will find a more tangible...