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...students and their friends. Although no "intoxicants" are allowed on campus. New York State is not dry, and 18 is the legal age for drinking. Local establishments, The Tap, Barge, Maxl's and many others, provide a convenient rendezvous for dates, and a good place to quench one's thirst...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Informality, Activity Enliven Campus... | 4/17/1952 | See Source »

...having time on his hands. "Ennui, when it rains on a man in large drops," he wrote, "is worse than one of our northeast storms; but the labors of agriculture and amusement of letters will shelter me." Adams gradually slacked off on farm chores, but nothing ever slaked his thirst for letters. He lived to boast of reading 43 books in his 82nd year, and it was in his study, at the hoary age of 90, that he died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Yankee from Quincy | 3/24/1952 | See Source »

...Hunger, thirst, and sex," said Schiller, "make the world go round...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mural | 10/30/1951 | See Source »

...hunger? Or simply make man never to yearn again, Never dread dawn or fear the darkness longer? He did not say, We hunger not and need Not then be filled. Rather, I am not the first, Nor last, but only One of you to bleed With the paradox of thirst, to cry, "I thirst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 15, 1951 | 10/15/1951 | See Source »

...blame the Marxists for their thirst of an earthly paradise, as if God had not made the earth a Paradise first, as if the Saviour had not torn out the sin of the world, as if we were not saved, redeemed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Voice in France | 8/13/1951 | See Source »

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