Word: pain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...damning A. H. McFarlan gives one a severe pain in the neck. If Great Britain has pulled up its socks it is not evident that it has attached them to garters. If Britain is the only nation which has "faced the music" it is big and good news for the U. S. Treasury, which still remains under the impression that London balanced its budget by defaulting in its war debt...
...dealt with this subject as long (15 years) and as intimately in thousands of individual cases, as patiently and sympathetically as I have tried to do, you would conclude, as I have, that not war, nor famine, nor pestilence have brought so much suffering and pain to the human race, as have hasty, ill-advised marriages, unions entered into without the knowledge, the preparation, the thought even an important commercial contract merits and receives. God made marriage an indissoluble contract, Christ made it a sacrament, the world today has made it a plaything of passion, an accompaniment...
...born in Victoria, B. C. in, 1893, graduated from Northwestern University Dental School at 20, practiced in Seattle, went to France with the A.E.F., is now head of the Department of Operative Dentistry in Columbia's School of Dental & Oral Surgery. For 18 years of his battle against pain he experimented along the conventional, unsatisfactory lines of blocking tooth nerves or deadening them by narcotic injections. Two years ago he discovered a new substance in dentine, the bonelike matter underlying tooth enamel. Working on a new theory of pain, he developed a chemical which is spread on the surface...
...euthanasia. She was Anna Becker, 34, a one-time nurse who was badly hurt in an automobile crash two years ago. Her teeth were knocked out. Her gums had failed to heal, she could eat no solid food and because of unhealed internal injuries even liquid food caused searing pain. Her legs swelled and hurt if she stood on them for a few minutes. She had been awarded damages of $6,000, of which she had collected nothing because of an insurance guarantor's bankruptcy. At the reporter's instigation she dictated a letter to the Erie County...
...name of mercy, I ask you to appoint a doctor to take my life. I am constantly in pain. I want to die. A competent physician could certainly kill me with less pain than I endure in an hour...