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...This leads us to the second objection against student waiting, that it would create a social distinction between waiters and non-waiters and would cause an unfortunate feeling of discomfort on both sides...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Asks Trial of Student Waiting; But Sees Increased Dining Hall Efficiency As Main Goal | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

...tried to maintain their balance. No pride in their eyes now. . . . The buffalo was.swaying in his crate, with a wandering look in his eye and ears laid back, like a mute trying to make a speech. . . . The hyena dribbled, ate, vomited, and ate again; no sickness, still less any discomfort could diminish his voracity. The panther lay huddled in a corner of her cage, with staring fur and a look of mystery in her eyes. . . . Can the sufferings of animals reveal what is going on in their dim souls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Balzac for the Beasts? | 7/22/1940 | See Source »

...first classification. Last week he was cruelly hounded by devotees of the second. In a week of bitterest tragedy for his France, it appeared that something equally ruinous might be at hand in Asia-the beginning of the end for the white man's oriental empires. The discomfort of Ambassador Arsene-Henry was pathetically symbolic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Indo-China Weaned | 7/1/1940 | See Source »

...choice seat on the floor with his knees doubled up under him. He thought more about Buddha than "The Cherry Orchard" that night. Then he pulled in at a quarter before the hour to hear the one-man debate on Barrie vs. Galsworthy and sat in great discomfort on a window ledge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 4/25/1940 | See Source »

...their own expense answers to a questionnaire intended to sound British war sentiment. As to the war's outcome, 69.4% "feel confident of an Allied victory"; 27.6% do not; and 1.5% expect a stalemate. Of those who replied, 49.5% called "insecurity for the future" their "greatest wartime discomfort," but 46% are "determined to win at all costs"; 38.7% voted themselves "bewildered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Blitzkrieg or Sitzkrieg? | 4/1/1940 | See Source »

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