Word: perished
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...street." I am sorry to say that this will no longer be the case. With the construction of the new dormitories, and the remodeling of the old (Peabody, Hoyt, Soule), smoking will no longer be allowed in the dorms, but only in the smoking rooms provided. Thus will perish one of the most favored of undergraduate privileges, long the main attraction to the Yard dorms (Peabody, Hoyt, Soule...
...recent years I became tired of such murders. I planned to blow up railroad trains and buildings to cause large numbers of people to perish at the same time...
When he returned to his nest, he found it occupied by several of his pupils. Angrily he pecked them off; perkily they refused to go. Like a true king, he would rule or perish: he fought. When the fight was over he, aged 18, was dead...
Quebec in those days was not an old-world city. Wrote Marie: "We see our selves here under the necessity of becoming saints. We must consent to this change, or perish." Her daily business, however, was to turn little Indian girls into good Catholics, and she went at her job with a will. Smallpox, fire, sub-zero weather, the little Indian girls themselves were obstacles but no more. Mere Marie indomitably toiled on; before she died saw the Ursuline school an integral part of Quebec. (Its present buildings, with seven acres, 600 inmates, still stand on the same site.) Agnes...
...inseparable." (And Alexander Hamilton) "He touched the dead corpse of Public Credit and it sprung upon its feet." "Thank God-I also-am an American!" "Let our object be our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country." "Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish I give my hand and my heart to this vote." "One country, one constitution, one destiny." "When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers therefore are the founders of human civilization." "There is nothing so powerful as truth -and often nothing so strange." The Author. Claude Moore Fuess. 45, is instructor...