Word: yearning
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QUEEN VICTORIA-An indication that small portions of the populace still yearn for sweetness and light...
Hundreds of candles burn in hundreds of stage windows while hundreds of stage mothers yearn for hundreds of wandering boys to return. Villians hiss: "You will suffer for this" all over the one-night stands. Heroines hold up burglars with pistols that aren't loaded. Working girls are leered at by wicked employers...
College students to the contrary, there is much truth in the argument. Yet how is it to be reoonelled with the undoubted fact that many students yearn to get through and relax in an eight-hour day? One explanation of the anomaly might be that it is human nature to feel abused under any circumstances. But a better explanation appears to spring from the emphasis on "sentenced". It is generally true that the undergraduate does not labor hard enough at college. But he will not do otherwise until the idea that any labor on courses comes in the nature...
...News. I left a $1,200 position, prewar basis, to enter college and, this fall, I left a $2,400 position to resume my college work here. My salaries have increased gradually from the low price to the higher price. This will make an average of $1,800 per yearn for 5 years or $9,000 as the total worth of my time for the period. I have seen receiving from 7 percent, to 15 per cent on investments. In fact I can get 15 per cent on good security. This rate, computed at compound interest payable semi-anually...
...arms of me yearn...