Word: painfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...handing down his decision Judge Solomon said: "Due to the fact that the defendant inflicted pain upon his victim by suspending him head downward and beating him to death, he likewise should suffer pain...
Little Tsar Boris of the Bulgarians lay abed in Vienna last fortnight with a pain in the ear, and in Bulgaria many a cafe owner knew not what to call his groggery and it all seemed to be the Pope's fault...
...Mother (Boston) Church quietly answered that Mrs. Eddy did not "at any time after she became a Christian Scientist either use a drug or allow one to be used for her except as she employed in a few instances an anesthetic for the purpose of temporary relief from extreme pain." (TIME...
...opinion the natives of Liberia are of a type superior to those found in many parts of Africa. He comments upon the relative insensibility-to-pain characteristic of these blacks and believes that in general their olfactory, visual, and auditory senses are not more keenly developed than those of whites. He discusses the "mobility of character" of the primitive Negro--"an inconsistency of impressions and sentiments, which only touch the consciousness without leaving there anything else but a fleeting imprint." The emotions of the Liberian native, his sentiments, his regard for truth, his loyalty, his conception of justice...
This penetrating indictment is one that might cause much pain and heart-searching to the conscientious college man. It might drive him to despair. It might induce him to abandon his hypocrisy and leave college. Fortunately, it will do none of these things, for the simple reason that the college man is, or should be, busy enough and sane enough to have no time for such speculations. If he reflects upon his own attitude toward his work, he passes it off with the thought that his attitude at the end of college is going to be more important...