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Word: paines (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will compete in the annual Boylston Speaking Contest tonight in Pain Hall at 8 o'clock, reciting passages from either poetry or prose for two first prizes of $50 and three seconds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Orators Vie for Boylston Awards | 3/23/1948 | See Source »

...Defeats. Although Fawzi Bey, once an officer in the Turkish army, was born in Lebanon 53 years ago, he was no stranger to Palestine. There he got some of the 80-odd wounds which still sometimes make his popeyes water with pain. He had spent a lifetime fighting for Arab independence against the British and French. Now he was returning to Palestine to command the northern sector in the fight against Zionism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: I Have Returned | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

...adolescent pain, And although at times he moves the mob to tears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Melancholy Don | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

...under 25,000. These are predominantly on campuses (school affiliate Students for Democratic Action boasts half of the 190 chapters) and in the middle-class ranks of socially alert physicians, lawyers, and businessmen--a nebulous tidbit of independent voters politicians understandably have chosen to ignore during the organizational growing-pain months. Its leadership has furthermore consisted largely of intellectuals and ex-bureaucrats of the Roosevelt period whose current strength in public affairs is negligible for all practical purposes...

Author: By S. M. R., | Title: Brass Tacks | 2/26/1948 | See Source »

Wives & Machines. The rush of aerial development passed Orville. He built himself a laboratory in Dayton, spent his time puttering in it. After 1918 he rarely flew. He had fractured a hip in an early crash, and any vibration caused him excruciating pain. Occasionally an aircraft company asked his advice. He still loved to build gadgets-a rolling roof and self-opening doors for his summer lodge in Canada, an automatic record-changer, a line of mechanical toys which his brother Lorin manufactured. He lived alone-neither he nor Wilbur ever married. Said Orville: "You can't support...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Begetter of an Age | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

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