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...throwing a bridge from the chasm's opposite bank. But the park-men knew that their first move would probably startle the deer into leaping off the ledge. Up to late last week it had not been rescued, was licking dew from the rocks to quench its thirst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Deer on a Ledge | 9/4/1933 | See Source »

Even the Eliot House Night Lunch, which caters to the hunger but not the thirst of the College between the hours of 10 P. M. and 1 A. M., will probably confine itself to cracked...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 9/1/1933 | See Source »

...itself. Somebody from the gallery prigged it on Wednesday. The ingenious Cantabrigians of The Lampoon and The CRIMSON were at once suspected. There is talk of a youth carrying a long box with Easter lilies sticking out from one end; of other youths smelling of liquor. But codfish begets thirst. Were these the lads to seek an appetizer? With great acumen the police searched the waters of the Charles River Basin, apparently under the impression that the Sacred Cod had transformed himself into a flying fish and gone for a swim...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Small Fry | 5/1/1933 | See Source »

...real stimulus in the fine are of transcending barriers of nationality. Not only language, but inter-racial insight and a grasp of a foreign culture have been the fruits of a conscientious attempt on the part of the student at self dependence. There have been, of course, men whose thirst for Keokuk or Hartford was so great as to handicap them even in their work, yet for the most part the disease is distinguished by rapid recovery and pleasant convalescence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ANOTHER LITTLE AMERICA | 4/12/1933 | See Source »

...prominent in the official mind; and since those bogies have been combined with a state law forbidding such sale to legal minors, it is safe to say that the administration will allow less vulnerable and consequently less scrupulous merchants on the Square to profit, without competition, from the Undergraduate Thirst...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE AGE OF CONSENT | 4/10/1933 | See Source »

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