Word: needs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...miner sang: "How much money does a clergyman need, for reading out the gospel and mumbling the creed? He lives at home and he doesn't pay rent-if he gets a plugged nickel, he's a very lucky gent...
...extend encouragement and a helping hand to younger Engineers and to those in need...
...government, realizing how much more importance is usually attached to injured dignity than to actual harm, is wise enough to sooth the cries from the Southward. But in the meantime Americans will doubtless continue to call themselves Americans, and Mr. Mencken's favorite column-heading need not for a while yield to a less euphonious name...
...symbol of her emancipation woman has agreed voluntarily to cast away. No longer need weary travelling men vacate their habitat before a feminine influx, or harassed deans tear their hair at co-eds who refuse to obey non-smoking regulations; not, that is, if the vote of the National Convention of Sororities means anything...
...statement's scope has been widened to include a university education. Ambitious America thirsts after learning; because that thirst went unrecognized until the teens had stolen upon the box is no reason, in the American tradition, for a refusal to appease it. The European plan of secondary education will need much grafting with American educational flora before it can be safely transplanted to a loam so rich...