Word: discomforts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...MacCracken bringing her husband a pair of pajamas. Mr. Jurney snores. Therefore he and his wife have to occupy separate bed rooms and it was at some discomfort that they managed to put up Mr. MacCracken for the night. Next day Mr. Jurney asked Mr. MacCracken if he would like to take a ride to the Senate Office Building. They drove to the Capitol together, met Mr. Leslie Garnett, U. S. District Attorney to whom Mr. Jurney introduced Mr. Mac-Cracken. Under cover of this distraction, the Sergeant at Arms slipped into Mr. Garnett's automobile and escaped from...
...feel that Mr. Chase has probably taken a more clear cut stand than he really meant to take. In order to make perfectly clear the nature of the discomfort of mind he felt over the President's report, he has placed upon the report the most unfavorable construction possible. For the purpose of his own argument he assumes practically that when the President, says scholar he means clerk. This seems to me somewhat ungrounded. We all know the types in question. We have at Harvard some real scholars and teachers, whom we all recognize and admire. In the graduate school...
When a pleasant house party is disrupted by a murder every one of its members looks suspiciously at the others, knowing that any one of them may be a murderer. Last week officials of the U. S. Treasury looked at one another with similar discomfort believing that among their number was a traitor...
...finally fits a thyroid or parathyroid graft into a new body, the graft suffers no shock, takes firm and lasting root, grows and supplies essential hormones. In the Stone technique whole glands are not necessary for grafting. A few strong cells suffice, and their surrender causes the donor no discomfort...
...easy success to which any anti-Hoover candidate would have come seduced the great Secretary into dreams of electoral mastery; but the rough and tumble of a New York campaign should leave him content with new stamp issues and public speaking safely cloistered from the razor minds which discomfort...