Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ernest Thompson Seton, literary naturalist, found a Harris's sparrow nest containing several fledglings near Great Slave Lake. The find was important because it proved that the bird builds a grass nest on the ground. But what were the eggs like? The Pennsylvanians and Canadians, in friendly competition last month, were trying to find...
...wife, worn out in his service, Brodie treated like a hated slave. Even when she collapsed from hopelessly advanced cancer he sneered at her for a softy. His old hag of a mother, who lived only for food, he pleasured in plaguing; once got her drunk for a joke, yelled with delight when she broke her only means of communication with life, her false teeth. Brodie forbade his eldest daughter Mary to keep company with a decent young Irishman; when the first throes of child-birth showed she had disobeyed him he literally kicked her out of the house into...
...implanted by nature and not the effect of social causes which are active in every closed social group, no matter whether it is racially heterogeneous or homogeneous." He offered as proof the willing miscegenation of whites, Indians and Negroes in Central and South America, of white lust for Negro slave wenches in the oldtime U. S. South...
Ghosts of rum-tippling, slave-swopping Early Americans arose last week, as Evolution has often done to plague contemporary pedagogy. To the School Board of Franklin. Pa. had been recommended a new textbook for the seventh and eighth grades-Socialized History of the U. S. by Charles Van Nest and Henry Smith. The board read the book, was divided in its opinion. Especially objectionable seemed two passages...
There is no solution of the problem that will be equitable for all. For the individual it is a matter of how far he goes during his week end or whether he would prefer to slave around college. There are those who advocate non-interference in the pleasures of college men and restriction in the case of preparatory school boys. It is argued that weekenders return to studies with the advantage of a fresher mind. This has been urged in the cases of college men. There is no reason why such should not be the defense for preparatory students...