Word: thirsting
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...being impossible to accommodate all who wished to fake the study, the faculty devised the brilliant expedient of assigning men to either course by lot. The method of drawing the names from a hat, the faculty thought, was calculated to select men with particular reference to their ability and thirst for knowledge in either department. Strange to say, it is claimed that the elective system is not a success at Yale...
...what he had to do. Beef and mutton were the foundation of the diet, and oat meal, graham bread, cracked wheat and vegetables were all good, but pastry, condiments and made dishes should never be used. He believed in letting a man drink all the cold water a systematic thirst required, and that if it was really necessary to reduce the weight of a man and get the fat off him, it must be done by diet and exercise, for all the sweating in the world would not take off fat. The use of alcohol was condemned...
...Senate committee on commerce has added $1,000,000 for the reclamation of the Potomac flats to the river and harbor bill. The Senate bids fair to increase the total appropriation of the river and harbor bill to more than $20,000,000. The House will probably concur. The thirst for the surplus is by no means assuaged...
...There let death cool his thirst!" she cried, and past...
...thirst am I, and from the fountain would drink...