Word: plights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...best editorial ($500)? to The Charleston [S. C.] News and Courier on The Plight of the South...
THEY KNEW WHAT THEY WANTED ?About California, but human passions and the plight of a farmer whose wife betrayed him are substituted for the sunshine-cinema convention...
This time, however, there were no ogling blacks, no steaming coffee, no apples, no diner. What to do? Nurmi's retainers noised his plight about the train. A New York Central brakeman, famed as a heavy eater, sidled up to the famished Finn modestly offered three succulent sandwiches. The engineer gave a bottle of milk, a conductor an apple. Thus was the breach filled. Nurmi left no crumbs. Fed, he stated that he disliked Chicago. He had three grievances: 1) Without notice to him the Coliseum track had been reduced from ten to twelve laps to the mile...
Harvard is singularly free from the evils the report deplores, and may smile at the manifest absurdity of attempts to promulgate special beliefs under the guise of dispensing truth. But if Harvard has escaped, it is no less true that many American colleges and universities have not; and their plight is a matter of national concern...
...overstatement. While various sections of the U. S. press have from time to time published letters and articles on the plight of Montenegro, it is untrue to say that any paper has given "strong support...