Word: painful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...selfishness? A single wheel detaches itself from the belt of a great engine to revolve for a short time and then to fall in the sand and die, fortunate if the hand of the master takes it up again and refits it in a forge of pain...
...called in and for a few days it seemed as if his skill had arrested further progress of the disease. Sunday, however, it became evident that the insidious inflammation had again set in and all hope was given up. Up till the last Howell was conscious and suffered great pain which he endured with a remarkable courage. He realized that his chance for life was very small; but fought desperately with the growing weakness until Monday night, when his system. utterly depleted, could bear the strain no longer...
Students are warned to beware of a man purporting to represent the Haskell Publishing Company and selling a set of books on Grand Modern Pain...
...have no high ideals ever feel perfectly satisfied with their work. A man's pleasure is not in what he has done but in the doing. The existence of moral evil and death do not prove that the Lord is not good to all. The experience of pain is necessary for an experience of pleasure. Death frees the wheels of life from the clogs. Man gets tired of a continuous striving, and death makes room for the thousands who are better able to help on the progress of the world. If, as we all believe, death is but the birth...
...Harvard got into a bad way and we suffered several years of uninterrupted defeat at the hands of Yale. It is not too much to say that this fact gave and still gives more mental discomfort to the student body than almost anything that could have happened. The pain of it was not compensated by any evidence of the increase in numbers or the surprising general prosperity of the University. Our defeats are a thorn in the side of every Harvard man. For the past year we have seen some signs of recuperation, and the students are just beginning seriously...