Word: pent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...escape from the growling > waters which had driven them from their homes. They had been picked up by the Government launch Pelican, which lay just outside the Knowlton's Point levee, waiting to transfer them to the steamer Wabash, approaching from up the river. Suddenly the levee broke. Pent waters boiled through the gap, sweeping the Pelican with them. Caught in the channel formed by the break, the Pelican twisted, spun, sank. All on board were drowned...
This year the exodus may be unusually glad, for students may use their vacation to celebrate Easter as well as Patriot's Day. How seldom it is that indifferent Cantabridgians can spare time for the annual egg-rolling on the White House lawn. Whether pent-up youth spends his father's substance on gilded night clubs or goes North "where hill is heaped on hill, the CRIMSON wishes him the top of the season--nor does it fail to drop a tear for the divisional-ridden senior sophister...
...should be ultimately grateful to God for the gift of appreciation and of individuality. Religious worship affords an outlet for the personal gratitude one feels for life. Without this emotional outlet or without the solace of artistic creation, humans could not endure their own pent-up gratitude...
...sprit of eternal goodness and truth and beauty that breaks the yearning heart. Contemplation of this beauty lifted the worshipper to such raptures of desire and abortion that mere words could not express the feelings, and motion was the natural outlet, however feel, for the pent-up emotions. So in the Molpe we find the primal expression of exaltation and worship that is present in all better poetry since...
...yellow menace, especially to denote Japan, is often on the lips of Caucasian alarmists. The external formidability of Japan and the obvious straights of her population, so pent within narrow islands, have given her, in the words of social prophets a predatory future. They have seen the damn erected against the yellow millions by the coast states of America as only a truce and postponement of the inevitable inundation. The actuality of these dismal prospects is for scholars of the subject to ascertain. But a bit of recent news from Asia suggests that the armor of the east rings...