Word: paines
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trod solemnly toward the winter stream in a clamor of conch shells and cymbals. With ritual reverence, the first pilgrims rubbed the water into their skin and their eyes, then drank it. They believed from their scripture legends that they might thereby speed to Nirvana and be spared the pain of countless rebirths in man's universe...
When Malone took over in '35, the Syndics resigned as customary, to allow the new director free rain in selecting his board. Only one, Pain Joseph Sachs, was asked back. The new men, while justly famous in their fields, represented a new spirit in the University thinking about the Press. Thomas Barbour, director of the Harvard Museum, was chosen, as was Biology professor Baird Hastings and Economist Edward Mason. Malone, himself, was no professional publisher, but a sometime historian...
...office, Alderman seemed more weary than vengeful or bitter. Said he of Knight: "I think he's as tired as I am, and he probably needs a rest too." Alder man said he had broken down his health in Knight's service. He complained specifically of a pain in the sacroiliac - which was pretty much the way Goody Knight felt about...
Schutte asked her to raise her hand as far as she could. Without difficulty or hesitation, Senora R. shot her right hand straight in the air over her head. With no sign of pain, she reached her fingertips almost down to her ankle...
Three Hormones. Senora R. withstood the operation amazingly well. Within a week the pain of her cancer had gone and she needed no more morphine. Dr. Schutte now supplies only three hormones as substitutes for those produced or governed by the pituitary: cortisone, desoxycorti-costerone and thyroid. Today, 95% of the outward signs of her cancer have disappeared...