Word: painlessly
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Whenever a question of raising money from undergraduates comes up, the perennial difficulty is how to collect the levy in the most painless fashion. There are many Freshmen who have their funds very carefully budgeted, and ten dollars would be an undeniable hardship for them. In the case of those holding scholarships, some compromise could be worked out by which to avoid this extra burden on those seeking an education under difficult circumstances...
...coupons redeemable at the Metropolitan box-office or at Guild headquarters against their value in tickets. Not restricted to a particular day of the week nor to a particular section of the Opera House, the coupons, coupled with the Guild's telephone reservation service, became the first painless system of obtaining opera tickets for those who could not afford to be season subscribers. In return for the $10 membership premium Mrs. Belmont offered, besides Guild service, a seat to a dress rehearsal, admission to an "at home" party. By the end of the year she was able to turn...
...until the last few days, but presumably if they are of age and mentality sufficient unto the college course they will be able to get through by themselves. If so, well and good, and they will profit far more from the work of this cramming than from having a painless filling up on the south side of the Avenue. If they can't well and good. Out they go. As is, they might get their diplomas from the people that do teach them, if the process can be dignified by that word...
...that Billy would "never know a moment of pain." In the slaughterhouse, Billy, like hundreds of others of his kind, was strung up by his heels on a moving chain. A muscular butcher seized his head, twisted it to one side, snapped. On rolled the chain, carrying broken-necked, painless Billy out to be carved into anonymous chops and roasts...
...such subjects as "The Pathogenesis of Ketosis" and "Infectious Enterohepatitis" gravely pondered the growing breach between sturdy practitioners on farm animals and city doctors who cosset socialites' pets. At the Ohio State Fair grounds there were expert demonstrations of tonsillectomy, caesarian section, amputation of the breast and painless killing of dogs; castration of aged boars; operation for umbilical hernia and rectal prolapse in swine; ovariectomy and dehorning of cattle; artificial insemination of mares...