Word: thirst
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although most of the coaches are naturally in superb condition for such play, any cases of over exertion, hot sun, or just plain thirst will be taken care of as in past years, by offerings of oysters and ale between innings...
...draws for the New Masses, from memory or imagination, as fast as he can and as briefly, with rich reds, yellows and slashing whites. Last summer he spent three months in the West, exhibited the results last week. Among them: Waiting (see cut), a Kansas cow, dying of thirst, on whom the buzzards have already lit; Security, showing more fortunate horses grazing on a prairie hill while a family whirls topsy-turvy in the sky above them. Not Surrealist was Artist Gropper's explanation: "It's quite literal-the cattle have some security but the people...
...British Empire were destroyed, the Führer went on pointedly to say, the United Kingdom would soon enough thirst for overseas territory as Germany thirsts today. The English did not secure their colonies by holding democratic plebiscites among the natives, continued the Chancellor, "but through naked, brutal force...
...Editor Ellery Sedgwick of Atlantic Monthly; New York Herald Tribune's Walter Lippmann. They and a handful of Harvard professors will select from each of the nation's six great regions at least one man. Only prerequisites: three years' experience, a Godspeed from the boss, a thirst for knowledge. When they go back to their jobs they will presumably be better equipped to serve them and their communities, generally raise the tone of the working press...
...Semiramis was matched by the stinginess of her frail, bullying sister Ann, who said when her husband died: 'Th' worst of it is I wasted a chicken on him yesterday." Rich Farmer Ezekiel Wikker was as mean as his sisters but added a manly lust and a thirst for hard liquor...