Word: mate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Asked if the mainspring of life, the desire to eat and the desire to mate would not keep man in an unbalanced state, Krishnamurti replied. "No; the possibility of begetting children will remain, but not the necessity. Men will not fall in love; they will be love itself...
Died. Lieut. Mons Monssen, U. S. N., retired; in Brooklyn Naval Hospital; following appendectomy. In 1904, as chief gunner's mate on the battleship Missouri, he saved 600 officers and men from destruction by leaping into the powder magazine of a flaming gun turret, shutting the door, fighting the fire with bare hands. President Roosevelt pinned the Medal of Honor on his breast...
...American students resent being told with whom they shall eat and sleep." This is undoubtedly true with regard to very small groups, but it is not applicable to societies of two hundred odd members. At Princeton the majority are content with liberty of choice in regard to a room-mate; they raise no formidable insurrections over arbitrary allotment to dormitories and Commons, or over a system of club elections by which their table companions are determined largely by factors beyond individual control...