Word: live
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...matrimony is not a game of solitaire; if it is a contract between two live humans that in nine cases out of ten handicaps the woman's earning capacity more than the man's; and if through no fault on her part it has been wrecked; why, pray, after a fair day in court should an ex-husband who has "stepped out'' of matrimony be encouraged to step out of alimony and so on ad infinitum...
...receptive mind with; so insidiously degrading and degenerate, that no wholesome minded man can have any conception of. La Scinana has polluted the National mind of Cuba, from her marble palaces to her most outlying and poverty stricken palm leaf hut. Still its Editor-in-Chief is allowed to live and pollute a Nation: under American protection For shame. While the flower of the young manhood of Cuba is willingly giving up its life in an apparently vain attempt to purify Cuba's national life! . . . . Machado, with good advisers, would have been one of the greatest of Presidents...
Morgan: Well, you certainly don't look it. Where do you live...
...venerable philosopher gave the most satisfying talk that I had heard in a youthtime of being talked at. He said that he imagined that commencement was probably not the occasion for rejoicing for many seniors that it was supposed to be. Many of us had probably failed to live up to the expectations of our parents and the hopes of ourselves; we had misused or ignored chances for learning that would not occur again; we had, perhaps, fumbled badly in athletics or fizzled dismally as social lights...
...after he had graduated from Harvard, a rubber company wanted him to be head of a research laboratory in Ohio. He visited their plant and then told them off. "I'm going to be married," he said, "and the kind of woman I'd marry wouldn't live in Ohio. If she did, I wouldn't marry her." He has an intense affection for New England and for Harvard. The girl he was going to marry was the daughter of Professor Richards of Harvard, a Nobel Prize-winner in chemistry. Or that's the girl he did marry...