Word: discomfort
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...Crimson sampling, conducted one week ago, showed 268 of 540 respondents either anxious to switch Houses now, or ready to consider the hypothetical option of moving off-campus as seniors. In many cases, material or culinary considerations accounted for the present discomfort; but in many others, a shift would mean the chance for contact with students or faculty members on other Houses (i.e., would serve the primary function of residential education). Although there has been an apparent effort to place tutorials in the Houses and to institute a broad seminar program, fewer than 30 per cent of those polled thought...
...know girls were checking out reserve books for their boy friends." She explained that the entire procedure was "legalized" so the library knows where the books are at all times. In the past, boys have failed to return reserve books borrowed by 'Cliffie friends on time, causing acute discomfort for their 'Cliffie friends...
...London had one-third its normal inflow of 1,500,000 people. Shops were half empty. Autos zipped into town at 60 m.p.h.. buses glided smoothly, and Transport Minister Marples found the way clear when he bicycled to work. For the striking railwaymen who wanted to cause maximum discomfort, the whole thing proved a flop. For the public it was as one typist sighed, "a lovely, lovely strike...
...alien environment. Since her 1956 abdication as queen of the M-G-M lot (185 acres) in order to reign over Monaco (368 acres), Grace has made a home of the old, 200-room palais princier, which had fallen into disuse when Prince Rainier lived in bachelor discomfort on Cap Ferrat. Redecorated, replumbed and filled with flowers, the hilltop palais princier echoes again to the laughter of frequent guests and splashings from the heated pool that Grace built...
...tubing-which is actually one tube inside another-permits the frigid liquid (-4°F.) to be pumped in and out, constantly recooled and recirculated, until the stomach is frozen to rocklike hardness. But most patients, though fully conscious, feel no discomfort. "Strangely,'' a Wangensteen team member told the American Surgical Association last week, "no patient has complained of the cold tube in his mouth or throat. Nor has any evidence of frostbite of the tongue been observed...