Word: thirsting
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...circled round with flasks to quench the thirst...
...Harvard there never has been the classical thirst for knowledge so vital to the success of such a system. The American mind is at present not scholarly but business-like. It would be quite impossible to adopt the Oxford system without modification...
...tables and get the advantage that comes in college life from association with a group of comrades around a common table." But if it had really afforded those advantages, would it have dwindled and passed? Undergraduates may be deaf to the call of the Muses, but they have a thirst unquenchable for college life and comradeship. Nowhere in America do the commons perform the function of "Hall" in an English college. The real fault with our system is that the commmons are not truly commons. Those who, in local opinion, constitute the socially elect dine in club or fraternity houses...
About this time it was noticed that the King listened patiently to his Ministers, but did not always act upon their advice. He developed a most curious thirst for knowing all the facts of a case and, more extraordinary, he even insisted upon knowing both sides of a question. Never before had a King of Spain been so unreasonable. Matters went from bad to worse, in the opinion of certain politicians. The King actually insisted on visiting the remotest parts of his kingdom in order to understand specific problems at first hand. He let it be known that...
...wonder whether these verses can have come from the same group of youths who originated the prose. A momentary irritation at "Poppa", which is not an observant imitation of a child's pronunciation, gives way to an enormous sense of gratification upon finding a college author who can mention thirst without an alcoholic hint...