Word: paines
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hospital cot: "I got up next to the sergeant guarding the turret and one of the Japs stuck his head down inside. I shot him right between the eyes. Suddenly there was a terrific explosion and I saw the tank commander go down. Then I felt a burning pain in my neck and realized they must have thrown a grenade down the turret. A few moments later they set fire to the tank. The driver and I figured it was better to get outside and get shot rather than burn to death. The driver poked his head out the front...
Justice in course grading, one of Education's more perennial pains, is now receiving careful treatment by Dean Donald K. David at the Harvard Business School. But his prescription, to further perfect an already good marking system, won't relieve the real pain...
...real pain is not centered in the marking system as such, but in the Business School's whole examination policy. As it is now, except for one course on Managerial Reports, the final exam mark and the course grade are usually one and the same. There is some attempt to count class recitation, but the professors themselves admit this is slightly hopeless. The classes are so large and the material so vast that very few students get called on more than twice a term. Labs and homework are nothing more than borderline factors. Consequently, the student goes into finals realizing...
When burns slowly developed on the men's fingers in the next few weeks, a shipyard doctor told the men they had "fungus growths." When they began to lose fingers and suffer dreadful pain, the leprosy rumor started...
...allies who have thus far aided the Chinese war effort with a total of but twenty fighter planes. The Generalissimo can hardly feel that the sacrifice of ten millions of people and the devastation of millions of square miles of conquered land can be made worth the pain and loss by the mere promise that China will some day be unified and free...