Word: rotten
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hearst and other Red-baiters will doubtless find in the publication of a newspaper by the Harvard National Student League further evidence that the seats of higher learning are rotten with un-Americanism. The "Student News," however, fulfills a legitimate function, defined in a remarkably calm editorial as: "to ensure adequate presentation of our activities and policies." If only as evidence that Harvard's traditional freedom of speech actually exists in a vital and elastic form, the existence of the new paper is justified...
...find that either Major Haverfield is rotten at arithmetic or else the married women of Scotland and England are most atrociously adulterous...
...loud with cicadas, the horses' hoofs stirring up dust-clouds dark with slowly veering columns of mosquitoes, shrill cries of caravans beside the tepid fords, envoys waiting for the tide by mudflats spangled with shoals of stranded fish, blued by a mist of butterflies above, and old kings rotten with caresses-and then that other dream, the dream that never left him. of shrines and gods of stone, mantled in green moss, frogs sprawling on their shoulders, their fallen heads beside them, pitted and time-scarred." Claude has a theory that somewhere along the ancient Royal...
Typhus, more than cold or Russian bullets, made Napoleon retreat from Moscow. Cold, hungry soldiers lay in their own filth on rotten straw. According to de Kirckhoff, a corps surgeon, despairing men ate leather and even human flesh...
There was only one crumb of comfort for Conservatives-the last two sentences in the following passage: "If a man is able and willing to work, but can get no work, provision for his security must be made. I do not mean the dole. The dole is a rotten thing!" What he did mean, the Premier said, was unemployment insurance-that being the correct name in England for what is loosely called the dole...