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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cool their raging Thirst, or quench their wanton Fire...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rare Poem of 1718 by Unknown Author Describes Revels of Old-Time Seniors at Commencement | 10/11/1926 | See Source »

...pride. Born in Wishograd, Russian Poland, he was an intellectual prodigy at ten. He has been a journalistic prodigy ever since, is the most prolific Jewish writer of this generation. Histories, primers, geographies, magazine articles-there is nothing he has not written. But he was not the man to quench the fire in Jabotinsky's eyes. He was not the man to wean from Weizmann the financial support of U. S. and British Jews. In political confusion, he was lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Faltering Sokolov | 9/7/1925 | See Source »

...feel like yelling after an hour or two of reading in the library. To satisfy this need, which is particularly pressing at this time of the year, we must walk down two long flights of steps to the wash room in the basement of the library, and attempt to quench our thirst with the luke warm water of the faucet. This process takes five or ten minutes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Legitimate Thirst | 5/26/1925 | See Source »

...circled round with flasks to quench the thirst...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 4/8/1925 | See Source »

...quench the fires of our desires...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mayor Curley's Assistant Mourns for Old Days--Sends Doggerel to Crimson as "Latest if Not the Last" Sigh | 5/3/1924 | See Source »

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