Word: brooding
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...tide of battle pushed the Huns back. They yielded. Victory came. Now those of the noble brood who did not give up their lives on the field of honor are returning. With sober face, Harvard bids them back. She realizes that they have gained in power and wisdom that which would have taken her years to give them. But for their own benefit she is encouraging them to return to the detailed study of facts upon which success in life is based. At the same time she has made it as easy as possible for them to enter the courses...
...have a liberal civilization, there is no room for the Hohenzollern in it. With him or his brood on the throne the rule of reason will cease in international affairs and the only right will be that of the powers of chemistry...
...might be suggested that if among the American eagle's brood there are such scantily feathered crows as may not bear the eagle's altitude, they could fly to more suitable places than Cuba or Canada. In neither of these two countries is great love fostered for poltroons. And Mexico, with all her sins, places no immoral value on the prime necessity in our scheme of existence of the preservation of human life...
...back from the south, it came alone. British robins, it is true, do not go south in winter; and in general the natural history of the poem is as little impeccable as the dialect. But what one wants to know is how Mr. Barlow comes to let his imagination brood on such sad, sentimental things...
...discreetly by entrusting for her ten pounds with Joseph Nestor, who cannot resist, when he sees Mrs. Broderick return from the court, giving the money got her. She explains to the magistrate that she has acquired the money by selling her jackdaw. Michael Cooney discovers a whole brood of jackdaws, and brings these to Joseph Nestor. There then arises a scene with a pungency and vigorous working of humor that would affect the most somber man in Ireland."The Workhouse Ward...