Word: ploughing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mary. That a man should at one time or another have tended grape vines is no cause for his friends to be ashamed. The popular Abel was a stockbreeder; Abraham Lincoln functioned as ploughman; King David tended sheep-as did Ramsay Mac-Donald; Cincinnatus was twice called from the plough to the Dictatorship of -and twice returned to it; Rousseau was a son of a humble Geneva watchmaker; the famed Dr. Johnson was a son of a poor bookseller; Christopher Columbus helped his father to comb wool; Thomas Alva Edison started life as a newsboy; John Keats, before he became...
...South Carolina. The people who serve her, the people who are her neighbors, the people she watches over, are black. In this book she writes about them. No wild crapshooters are they, no barrelhouse kings, cakewalk princes, or skull-faced witch-men. They are Negroes who pick cotton, plough fields, raise pickaninnies...
...less remarkable is the story of Mac Donald's struggle with his own party. Disavowed by all except a handful of his colleagues, he was content during the war to plough the lonely furrow. The coming of peace brought reconciliation but also new battles. For the next four years he was engaged in a struggle with Communism, with the ideas disseminated by the Russian Revolution--a struggle culminating in his duel with Radek in Berlin, April 1923, a struggle in which there was not only vindication for his honesty but success for his effort. The English Labor Party has been...
...complete words: You're in the Army now. You're not behind the plough. You'll never get rich, you sonofagun! You're in the Army...
...thing of its kind in the history of American college education. That it is an invaluable adjunct to the college curriculum proper, no conscientious person will quarrel over; nay, not even the fortunate or unfortunate Seniors who bear the full brunt of the burden. With it, a student will plough deeper into the field of his particular major study and will gain a correspondingly broadened perspective of the realm of related knowledge. Without it, he will be ground with the rest to a dead average by a uniform ordeal of "stuffing," irrespective of his aptitude and needs...