Word: distress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lorenz returned to the U. S. two months ago (TIME. Jan. 18). He came boldly. Withal in the back of his mind was memory of distress. On his previous visit in 1921 and 1922 the U. S. medical profession had thrown such obloquy over him that for a time his good humor became only a mask. He had come to repay with his surgical skill the protection and aid U. S. munificence had afforded Austrian War-emaciated children. His method of correcting congenital deformity of the hip was "bloodless," that is, he did not use the knife. His procedure...
...There is considerable distress selling at present," Professor Cunningham continued, "but in a short time there will undoubtedly be a rebound in the general market...
...Pennsylvania the legislature was hastily canvassing a hundred proposals for settlement. Distress in the mining regions grew more and more acute. In some places there were demonstrations by miners against coal washeries, which were still in operation. But there was no sign of any actual negotiations for settlement...
...undergoing its periodic attack of solar acne, discharged from its sunspots enormous masses of positive electrons, which swept into the far-flying signal waves with disruptive effect.* There was an earthquake in the Pacific one night which caused further blurring of communication; and two nights running, ships in distress on the storm-tossed Atlantic silenced all stations with their stark, tragic S.O.S.† The European program was flashed from stations in England, France, Germany, Austria and Spain. In Berlin, portly opera singers were obliged to loiter over their beer all night or scramble out of bed long before dawn...
...require either a tariff for themselves or the abolition of duties on manufactures. They favor dumping regardless of the fact that it but transfers the hardships of crop fluctuation to foreign farmers. But despite the carelessness and heterogeneity of the agitation, several factors are obvious: crop fluctuation brings social distress; agrarian society is rigid and comparatively helpless; if any portion of the country requires sane governmental assistance, it is the farming portion...