Word: paines
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...open to Freshmen. This is the way in which '43 can pass on its heritage to '44, and if by the third page the task begins to pall, think only of the effort required to tally the results; it may be a bore for you, but it's a pain in the neck...
...famed leaders, Joseph Smith and Brigham Young. Author Fisher told in lusty detail of Prophet Smith's plural marriages before his lynching by a mob at Carthage, Ill., in 1844. To Reorganized Mormons, who believe that Joseph Smith neither practiced nor preached polygamy, the book was a plural pain...
...jags, taking a few whiffs of one drug or the other until half-conscious and happily drunk. In the early 1840s,'dashing young Dr. Long sniffed ether at parties, but was clear-headed enough to notice that his drunken friends, if they came to blows, felt no pain. So one day in 1842, he fearfully soaked a towel in ether, anesthetized a friend before removing a tumor...
...distinguished by good wit and by still better observation. But it is also a study of family life, early 20th Century vintage, almost as cruelly incisive as The Way of All Flesh, and more compassionate. Its essential theme: a human being's gradual discovery of the universality of pain, and of the fortitude with which it is sometimes...
...Mouse. He and the girl had much to hate in common. He was so far cut loose from his family that while his mother died in the next room he sat reading The Way of All Flesh without either emotion or regret for its lack. But the patterns of pain, fear and insecurity were laid deeper than he knew: at a moment when his life was taking its full shape, his father's disastrous laughter sounded in his memory and cheated him into cowardice...