Word: pain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...know whether or not the orders for such emergency treatment actually came from a physician. Journals of medicine as well as standard surgical texts specifically advise against such application of greasy materials to second or third degree burns, even in dire emergency. Aside from some easing of the pain, the only effect this treatment could have would be harmful. Physicians know that a burned area is not greatly different from any other wound, and as such, is very easily infected by impromptu therapy from sympathetic onlookers...
...Flemish-speaking Belgians who demand separation from the rest of their tiny country are a pain in the neck to most Belgian politicians. The fact that Premier van Zeeland has determined to make peace with them has considerable bearing on his visit to the U. S. and the reasons...
...season's enmity, the pain of growth...
When listening to the rhythm of human voices, some are enwrapped, as though never before had man made any sound besides those of pain, joy, at the Glee Club concerts on the steps of Widener are pelicans to him who gapes on them from a library window. Straight they stand, or stiffly they walk, nosing one another and raising sharp little cries...
...this plan is examined with a little more care than in usually employed by collegians in the heat of a new idea, its practical merit quickly falls away leaving only a this shell of theatrics. For those who want to utilize their money in saving life and salving pain, there are many ways in which $1500 could be used much more economically. In the fist place, it could be turned over to the Red Cross and other veteran organizations now at work for both sides in Spain and who could put the money to its most efficient use. Or better...