Word: discomfort
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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...
...before by the knowledge that he is in private life a cabaret singer and master of ceremonies who must have picked up what he knows of the bad ways of the plains while appearing on the Palace circuit. A sheep in wolf's clothing, he sometimes retaliates for his discomfort by glossing his role with furtive mockery, quickly suppressed. Some of the photography is pretty and the theme song, "Under a Texas Moon," better than the average. Silliest shot: Fay eloping with Myrna Loy, when he might have had Armida or Raquel Torres...
...heart must work. The pulse rate indicates the heart efforts, and thus the body efforts. High pulse rate is an index of unwise, inefficient overexertion. Dr. McConnell found that when his subjects in the cork-lined test room developed a pulse of 135 a minute, they complained of discomfort. Their heads ached, their hearts palpitated. A metallic taste came into their mouths. They could speak only with effort. At 160 pulses a minute they felt as though they were "floating on air" and were at the verge of heat stroke. Dr. McConnell endangered them no further...