Word: paines
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...major in philosophy and theology. He began to enjoy himself hugely. Strasbourg's faculty was young and stimulating, his work was rewarding, and he had already begun lessons with the famed French organist, Charles Marie Widor. But Schweitzer's thoughtful happiness also carried with it some pain. "It became steadily clearer to me," he has written, "that I had not the inward right to take as a matter of course my happy youth, my good health, and my power of work. Out of the depths of my feeling of happiness there grew up gradually within me an understanding...
...Democratic brass had hobnobbed in Des Moines with 3,000 farmers, labor leaders and party bosses from 16 Midwestern states, whooping up the Brannan farm plan, which, to hear them tell it, would give the farmer a high income, the consumer low food prices, and the taxpayer practically no pain at all (TIME, April 18). There was almost no chance of its passing Congress this session, but the Democratic faithful didn't mind too much: they decided to make Brannan's dream scheme the major campaign issue of the 1950 congressional elections. Brannan had staked his own future...
What Do You Believe? Meanwhile, the University of California's Regents suddenly decided to broaden and sharpen its loyalty oath. Henceforth, on pain of dismissal, the university's 4,000 staff members would have to swear that they had never joined, supported, or even believed in any organization that wanted to overthrow the U.S. Government...
Perhaps at that moment in Memorial Hospital, a life frayed with pain and dimmed with morphine is flickering down to the cold. Dr. Rhoads is no callous technician. His confident eyes grow sad when he hears of this everyday event. He looks out the window at the cluttered roofs of New York and at a great bridge roaring with traffic. "It needn't be," he says, "not always...
...Growing Pains. Most ozoners get by nicely with old movies, but many are clamoring for a chance to show the latest pictures: four Illinois drive-ins are suing for earlier showings. Another growing pain: at least three state legislatures are talking about regulating or taxing the drive-ins, and some local officials have banned them as road hazards because they disgorge hundreds of cars at once...