Word: sores
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harvard's unique position among large universities, of possessing totally inadequate swimming facilities, has long been a somewhat sore spot. There is no use in denying that secondary school students whose favorite pastime is swimming are biased against a university not even represented in the sport. Furthermore, the fifty-yard requirement for Freshmen means a large number of novices to increase the crowding every year. "The pool's living water" is an apt description for three days of the week; and even on the odd afternoons there is now a fairly large number of habitual visitors. The old building...
...Children are hungry and sore-eyed in these kennels. Mothers have not the milk for their wretched babies...
with the subject mater of the remaining chapters: "The Lungs and the Blood," "Speed, Strength and Endurance," where-in the sprinter learns that scientists can predict his times from only two or three "medical" observations, and so on. Nor do all these facts and thoughts stick out like a sore thumb in the book, as they do here. Far from that, they form part of the fabric of the text, and all contribute to give the reader a clearer and broader view of the place that he and his body, and all "living machinery" hold in the scheme of things...
...long time, has accomplished the convolution. The feeling is evident in print, in the new book written by Darrow, and in the belliger out attitude of nearly all the important papers and magazines. The Civil Liberty unions have been quietly accomplishing much in the courts, but the sore will probably come to a head in the person of Governor Smith...
...Senator Borah's attitude of mind towards the deaf and dumb as an index of official Washington, we can well understand why Gallaudet College government supported institution of the higher education of the deaf and dumb, is repeatedly denied the financial support of the government adequate to its sore needs. Even our great national leaders cannot get away from the fallacious conception of the deaf and dumb as social nonentities. . . . They apparently cling to the superstition that the deaf and dumb are inarticulate humans, eking out a miserable existence selling lead pencils on the street corners; or worse...