Word: thirst
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...freshman set adrift in the larger seas of college and university life falls a ready victim of the banalities of collegiatism and athleticism, and slides along a year or two, treating his courses as a necessary evil. And it is only after long exposure to scholarship that a Faustian thirst for knowledge begins to inflame...
...sent on to its present power by a spiritual, not a material urge", said Mr. Albert Mansbridge in an informal lecture at the Union last night. Mr. Mansbridge, who educated himself while working in a railroad signal tower by rewriting Shakespeare's "Tempest" 1000 times, spoke of the tremendous thirst for education possessed by the British working classes...
...first suggestion of Professor Davis: that inspirational teachers are a prime requisite in the conservation of the college more nearly approximates the truth. For no matter how much an undergraduate may thirst for knowledge in September, after some months he requires additional stimuli than his books can supply to bolster up his human frailty. These must be supplied by those who teach. Indeed, the college like the individual must seek its strength within itself...
...wind that blows nobody good. The enactment of prohibition ruined many breweries and distilleries, and even some short-haul railroads which almost exclusively carried their products. On the other hand, it greatly stimulated some new enterprises-particularly those relating to human thirst and its legal gratification...
...ordinary person, whether in this country, or Great Britain, can gossip authentically only about the mediocre people he knows; and, while it is enjoyable, his soul yearns for something more aristocratic. This thirst after coronets has been the cause of Mr. Michael Ariens present prosperity. And, for that matter, he did well enough with imaginary peers and Honorables; but the real inside story of genuine dukes and prime ministers leaves such vapid tales absolutely nowhere. Even the "gentleman with a duster" and Margot Asquith have not sated the public's taste for what the Duke of Devonshire said when...