Word: thirst
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cool their raging Thirst, or quench their wanton Fire...
...most gallant career in his motherland's military and the French Foreign Legion. He has never visited the U. S., but will soon, ostensibly to sample the California climate but also to see with his own eyes large masses of the people whose literary a.nd cinematic blood-thirst has caused his last two books to sell into the hundreds of thousands. Big-game hunter, explorer, golfer, boxer, fencer, cricketer, he knew Jack London in the South Seas, Theodore Roosevelt in Africa...
...citizens of Chicago to support financially the efforts of the Company is greatly appreciated by those who are conducting the affairs of the Company." The present season being the last under the present guarantee arrangement, necessity was apparent for new guarantees aggregating at least $500,000 annually if the thirst of the Chicago operagoer is to continue to be slaked. Last year throughout certain sections of the country many a tired husband left the warmth of his hearth to nod at the performance of the "Chicago Civic Opera Company." Many a matron fondly listened to the strident tones of "leading...
...during 1925-26 was the increasing power?or at least, increased self-assertiveness? of the undergraduates. (Dr. Thwing had compared this phenomenon to the "student universities" of the Middle Ages, when a professor had to ask his pupils for permission to take a week-end off. Ah, there was thirst for knowledge in those days...
...Japan's warning proved unnecessary. Landing at Macao, Asiatic Portugal, one flyer struck a tree; his comrade's plane was missing. Companions in another plane had been confounded crossing the turbulent air-passages of hot Arabia, had descended in a sandstorm, been rescued after exposure to fierce hunger and thirst...