Word: paines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...midst of a campaign for renomination. Wisconsin's 69-year-old Governor Albert George Schmedeman, Democrat, stepped from a speaking platform last month, slipped on a loose stone, wrenched his left foot, continued his campaign. Last week, in severe pain, he bedded himself in a Madison hospital where surgeons amputated his infected leg above the knee, felt he had "every chance" for recovery...
...historical analysis and biography. His lucid irony does not prevent him from stating many a downright unusual opinion. Of Metternich (whom he calls a pompous prig) he says: "His fundamental political principle was simple, that the Powers that be are ordained of God, and must therefore be supported on pain of impiety. The fact that he was the chief of the Powers that be gave to this principle, in his eyes, a luminous self-evidence which it might otherwise not have possessed...
...think all biologists would agree that, so far as we can know anything about such matters, pain, as human beings know pain, is wholly absent from the experience of invertebrate, or even reptilian, contestants in the struggle for existence. Alfred Russel Wallace, co-promulgator with Darwin of the theory of evolution, even suggested that among some of the lower forms of life the process of being eaten might be mildly pleasant...
...inconsistency is surely obvious of granting licenses for the wounding and killing for mere amusement of such high forms as birds and mammals, which almost certainly do suffer pain comparable to that suffered by human beings . . . and then violating the rights of property and entering premises to interfere with the natural activities of quite low forms of life in which the owner of said premises had taken no part whatever...
...called) Chaffee served in Jerusalem as a Red Cross captain. When he returned to the U. S. he took the job he still holds-director of the Presbyterian Labor Temple on Manhattan's radical 14th Street. Founded by the New York Presbytery which, to the great pain of its conservative members, foots half its bills, the Labor Temple is a forum for people of all sects. Because "people who are willing to work among Labor should live among them." Director Chaffee lives with his wife and two children on the top floor. A grey-haired, wiry man who much...