Word: painfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...effective than nature's own way of accomplishing the same ends. A partial state of coma is induced in the patient by deep and rapid breathing; dizziness follows, and it is held that almost any part of the body may then be subjected to treatment that would ordinarily cause pain, without the slightest sensation of discomfort, and without any harmful after-effects...
These stories are all constructed to portray one theme,--the human being on the rack; on the rack of physical pain, or anguish of the soul or unattained emotion. They illustrate a self-conscious passion, an examination of all of the details of human passion. In fact they constitute the very summary of all of the elements of the subjective...
...Begg '24, A. D. Best '24. Robert Brand '23, W. O. Clark '23, J. M. Forbes '23, H. H. fuller '23, J. B. Pain '23, F. T. Potter '24, J. J. Sack '24, and R. R. Wheeler...
...American school history of England a satisfactory guide. How many Englishmen know how the thousands of American prisoners were treated on Long Island in the war of the revolution? How many Americans know how the captain of the Shannon was wounded and doomed to a life of pain in the duel with the Chesapeake? There are far greater things of which the history should be known. It is only since the world war revealed something of the strength and the resources of the United States that the younger people of England have turned their eyes with new looks of interest...
Biography is a form of literature which requires sympathy, good judgment, impartiality, and tact. The last-named is particularly necessary when the subject of the biography is still living; biographers throughout history have caused pain, done injustice, and made fools of themselves through too much haste in publishing their work, or too little taste in the writing of it. Mr. Tumulty's recent publication, while not strictly a biography, must be placed in that class as it attempts to portray the character of ex-President Wilson through the narration of various events in his career. It is unfortunate that...