Word: lights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There are several reasons for the conviction behind this expression of faith in the necessity of things. The first is a far cry even viewed in the all-important light of psychology, and has not particular validity. No Harvard crew, and for that matter no Yale crew either, has even won consecutively for more than six years. Pause then to consider that the lean years have expired and the days of plenty are about to set in. Superstitious souls may take this for what it is worth though it seems hardly worth any very substantial wagers in itself. A second...
...blinding light...
...even light illumines every spot...
With the appearance of the Senior Album and its individual Senior biographies, the collective characteristics and statistical pecularities of another Harvard graduating class are brought to light. The industrious compiler, in avid pursuit of the facts about his fellow students' existence, discovers what professions the members of the present graduating class intend to enter, how old they are, where they were born, and certain unusual conditions of their present lives. In other words he lays before us facts which differentiate this class from all others, and which should point out important tendencies of the present generation of college graduates...
Like author, like character. Author Walker does his best graphic writing when he talks about Poles, Hunyaks, "bohunks" in general. Again and again he stops his story to look at them, trying always to fit the horror and immensity of their tasks into some scheme. Shaking light from the furnaces illuminates the stupid, pitiful anger of their faces. Author Walker describes "the look of the woman's eyes whose husband fell into a steel ladle and was melted down a year later- they didn't tell her, she found out afterwards - into an ingot...