Word: thirsts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that the necessity of covering certain specified fields prevents in some measure the exploring of other enticing fields, in the true amateur spirit. But the difficulties which have so attenuated the ranks of the Freshmen are to be found elsewhere than in lack of interest; a real curiosity or thirst for knowledge is rarely aroused before the second or third year anyhow, and the Freshman would probably be equally uninterested in whatever he chanced to take...
...attended Princeton and Harvard Universities. He spent two years at sea, has been in business in Central and South America, has been a vaudeville actor, a reporter for a Connecticut paper. He was married in 1918 to Miss Agnes B. Burton of London, England. His plays include: Thirst, Beyond the Horizon (Pulitzer Prize play 1920), Diff'rent, The Emperor Jones, Anna Christie (Pulitzer Prize play 1922), The Hairy...
Although Rome was deluged by a continuous and torrential downfall of rain, the Romans were miserable from thirst. The paradox is explained by a landslide which broke the Tivoli Aqueduct and thereby cut off Rome's domestic water supply...
Extremely hot and threatening tempest. The Europeans are guzzling beer with ravenous thirst. I can't conceive of it. I'm happy with my tea and lemonade, and hate this everlasting whiskey and brandy...
...alone, began a journey through the desert portions of Arabia that was to last two years, bring him into contact with tribes hostile to Europeans, subject him to the rigors of a life as severe and comfortless as that of an eremite. Solitude, the blinding heat of the desert, thirst, hunger, every weariness of the flesh he endured. Moreover, he did not attempt to pass among the Arabs in any disguise, but, wherever he went, bluntly proclaimed himself an Englishman and a Christian. Supporting himself largely by the sale of medicines, among people who preferred spells and amulets...