Word: discomfort
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stands a stone monument called the Harding Memorial, erected by the Canadian Kiwanis Club. It honors Warren Gamaliel Harding, only President of the U. S. to visit Canada while in office, whose reception at Vancouver shortly preceded his death in San Francisco. But Vancouver Kiwanians squirmed with discomfort last week. Other thoughtful citizens deplored. U. S. visitors were in a ferment of indignation. For, despite many a protest, Vancouver's loud evening Sun ("Vancouver's most useful institution") was publishing serially The Strange Death of President Harding by onetime Federal Sleuth Gaston B. Means (TIME, March...
...same doctrine was applied in the similar Massachusetts case of Smith v. New England Aircraft Co. But there, injunction was denied, largely because the portion of the plaintiff's land in question was covered with dense brush and woods, and the occupants failed to prove material discomfort to themselves because of low flying...
With fortitude which his 73 years, an intense physical discomfort and Rome's sultriness made remarkable, His Holiness ended an unusually busy nine days last Monday. It was the conclusion of his golden jubilee celebration of being ordained a priest on Dec. 20, 1879. It touched the anniversary of his being proclaimed Cardinal June 21, 1921 (eight months later he was elected Pope Pius...
...question of employment and general wage scales at Harvard, which has been a source of discomfort to the University during the year, will be the subject of a study to be begun in October, it was announced last night at University Hall...
...obvious result of this higher vandalism will necessarily be increasingly stringent regulations concerning taking books from Widener. The unpleasantness is not only confined to depriving many men from reading books assigned in their courses, but the restrictions that will have to be inaugurated will add to the discomfort of all who have to use library books...