Word: victimized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fitting that a university about to establish a school in political science should open its gates to a victim of the lack of it. Massachusetts, dying as it is of hypocrisy, may exchange its most valuable servants for Curley's marionettes, but Harvard has shown that it can recognize real education even where the Commonwealth cannot...
...problem of the class of citizens attending the prep schools is the problem of the United States itself. A victim of a grotesque system of government cannot by any manner of reasoning be named as its cause. America must realize, as England has long done, that members of the socially privileged classes have as much to offer the government as any other group of the population. Provincialism and gas-house polities have left their sears on this country, and until such failings are overcome, it is both futile and unfair to compare this country's schools with Eton and Harrow...
...Anne Morrow Lindbergh, in the throes of blessed motherhood," called the kidnapping of "our beloved 'Eaglet' " the "greatest and most disastrous case of all times, excepting the Crucifixion of the devine Son of Man," and reached its climax in: "Yes, but the ashes of the darling baby, victim of a fiend urged by greed of gain, and seeking pleasure, are mute witnesses of the Crime, while within every American's breast there is a beating of the heart, tolling the death-knell of every gangster, while the Stars and Stripes fly from every staff and masthead...
...fine, sharp particles of sand, sandstone or quartz, all of which contain silica, by miners', sandblasters, quarrymen, tunnel borers. The silica particles erode the delicate lining of the lungs, make them vulnerable to the germs of pneumonia and tuberculosis. If those diseases do not kill, the silica victim usually wastes away to death because his clogged lungs transmit insufficient oxygen to his blood...
...where he could get a picture showing automobile, corpse and man, Cranston made two shots. Back at his office later he learned from a reporter that the weeping man was Rose Samanoff's husband who, seeing the crowd in the street, had pushed in to discover that the victim of sudden death on the sidewalk was his wife...