Word: quenched
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Dates: during 1921-1921
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...been shown, gave a list of possible causes, and invited anyone who so desired to single out one of the causes as the true one. That is exactly what was done in the communication in the following day. The writer assumed that it was the desire of Harvard to quench this "detrimental resentment." Therefore he suggested as a quenching agent the remodeling, or we might say, the cospomolization of the existing society. The recent communication under the heading "A Boost for Back Bay" suggests the impossibility of changing the existing order of things. Then my answer is, "do not puzzle...
...unchecked. The fact that Marshal Foch has planned within the last two weeks a line of defense on the French border and a strategic point of march into Germany is decidedly significant. One does not wait for a smouldering fire to break into flames before making any effort to quench...