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Word: paines (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...even a week, the intense strain they are under and the comfort they give in their work, you'd refrain from your blasts. How many other men work day and night, seven days a week, going out in all kinds of weather, to ease the despair and pain of the bereaved ? Any financial benefits would never recompense for the inconvenience, hard work, loss of family life, etc., these men incur. . . . A doctor, dentist, or any other professional man may refuse to go when called but the "undertaker" never takes that privilege...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 9, 1948 | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

...surgical patient can never hope to lie in a bed of roses, but it is becoming less & less a bed of pain. Without making head lines, or much of a splash, a steady drip of knowledge goes on eroding much of the hospital's horror...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A Better Operation | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

Memphis' boll-headed Boss Ed Crump told the press that he had got a note demanding $50,000 on pain of death. Crump paid, said he-one cent postage due on the letter. He took a brown grip to a designated spot and left it there for 40 minutes, but nobody came for it. So Crump cleared his throat and read to reporters the contents of the grip: "To the coward perpetrating this dastardly thing: anyone could take a white mouse with baby teeth and run you in the Mississippi River...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Statecraft | 1/26/1948 | See Source »

Toothache. In Durango, Colo., Mrs. W. J. Wellman, an automobile accident victim, went home from the hospital, felt a pain in her hand a few days later, consulted the doctor, who fixed things by extracting one of her missing teeth from her thumb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 5, 1948 | 1/5/1948 | See Source »

...painkiller, amidone has performed brilliantly. It is used in smaller doses than morphine, does not produce morphine's pipe-dreamy effect, sometimes kills pain after morphine has failed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Safer Narcotic | 12/22/1947 | See Source »

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