Word: everly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...victim of "intractable" pain, said Dr. Rutherford, is to send him to a hospital for a week. During the first half of the week he is given daily intramuscular venom injections of two or three cubic centimeters each. During this "saturation" period his pain is as agonizing as ever, and he usually needs heavy doses of morphine or other opiates. But within four or five days the venom seeps through his system and anesthetizes pain areas of his higher nerve centres. Gradually his pain dies away. After the first saturation period, the physician, by cautious experimenting, discovers exactly how large...
...most protracted literary angers of his time. Like other English writers who fought and survived, he was unable to bring his mind fully to bear on his war experience until years afterward. His first novel, Death of a Hero, was written in one grim satiric gust in 1928. Ever since then, in novel after novel, Aldington has pointed the contrast he sees between the hope of a good life and literature which animated his generation, and the fog of death and deathly stupidity that moved...
Exemplifying this trend is Ernest Fiene, German-born American painter. His oil, Night Shift, strongly protests against the humanity-stifling power of industry and its ever-increasing tendency to draw the life-blood from the individuality of the laborers. We see a group of shabbily-dressed workers slowly trudging toward the mines and factories where they are about to assume their tiresome and cog-like duties at the machines. The artist accentuates the depressing atmosphere which pervades the lives of these men by using as a background grim, grey chimneys and buildings, in addition to a cold, solid, winter...
...resignation of John Tucker Murray, professor of English, was also announced. Professor Murray has been a noted authority on Shakespeare and was well known for his courses on modern drama. Murray has been at Harvard ever since his graduation in 1897 first as an instructor, and later as an associate professor and professor...
Deane Waldo Malott, associate professor of Business and Assistant Dean of the Graduate School of Business Administration, also resigned from the University. Malott was a graduate of the University of Kansas, and in 1923 graduated from the Business School with which he has been connected ever since...