Word: sad
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...athletics reflects credit on their alma mater and that the credit of their alma mater is somehow worth while. As nowhere else in modern life, they learn obedience, discipline, fortitude. Among the "moral substitutes for war" demanded by William James intervarsity athletics should rank high. It would be sad, if, in revaluing college spirit, we destroyed...
...chance is thus given for both to know each other better than continuous weeks in classroom or lecture can allow. Indeed, friendships, often considered unattainable, have begun in this way--for even the most formidable of faculty lions is lamblike at ten. To the meek, the bold, the sad, the gay, today brings open sesame to Olympus--Olympus, two lumps and cream...
...Detroit, some Shriners were tormenting a sad circus-camel that had been procured to contribute a big laugh to some approaching initiations. They caused him to serve as a "hurdle," prodded him with sticks, guffawed and jeered at his bewildered antics. Suddenly the camel, goaded by an intolerable incivility, wheeled on the shivering Shriners. His grey lips rolled back. He bit a Shriner fiercely in the shoulder. His ungainly hoof shot forward. He broke a Shriner...
...several years the lament over the farmer's sad lot has been a conspicuous political asset to many Congressmen and Senators. In consequence, to state that the farmer is experiencing prosperity is, for such politicians, like depriving a she-bear of her whelps...
...death. Hard is the lot of yellow alley-dogs, which often have no place to go; they must drag themselves about from corner to corner, pushing a pair of useless front legs or perhaps pulling their bodies behind them like billets because their hind-legs are shriveled to sad bony wisps. Such dogs throw a ghastly shadow as they limp about in the sunlight...