Word: paines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...next Harvard speaker, lecturing on "The Effects of Strong Emotion." In this talk, scheduled for January 23, he will outline some of the famous experiments performed in his laboratory at the medical school on the reactions of the animal functions of the human body to hunger, fear, rage, and pain, a subject on which he has written many works...
...other hand, it is the Divine Child who speaks of peace during these days. . . . Instead of speaking to men we would rather speak with God on this subject, imploring Him to give true peace to humanity. Regarding this we unfortunately see but one solidarity, namely, of distress, of pain and suffering. . . . From this terrifying spectacle which the world presents we must raise our eyes to Heaven. . . ." Among the sorrows of the Church, said the Pope, are difficulties in Spain, Mexico, Russia-"a sort of triangle over which hovers the greatest menace."* The Holy Father again regretted "that statesmen...
People who have been watching Arturo Toscanini conduct lately were not surprised when it was announced last week that he would be unable to finish his midwinter engagement with Manhattan's Philharmonic-Symphony. Since early in the summer Toscanini has suffered excruciating pain in his right arm. Like many a conductor before him (Leopold Stokowski, Willem Mengelberg, Richard Strauss), he has a sub-deltoid bursitis or "glass arm," an affliction which orchestra leaders and schoolboys get from the same cause. Schoolboys get it from throwing pebbles or crabapples instead of baseballs, conductors from putting too much energy into their waving...
...very thought of it makes me cringe with pain...
...third floor where a middle-aged woman wrapped in bath towels was seated" on what polite Kolyumist Kitchen called "a window sill, part of the low window having been converted into a seat." Situation: the sill had been freshly painted; the lady was stuck, to move caused her extreme pain. Solution: the physician called for carpenter's tools, removed sill & lady, soaked her loose with gasoline...