Word: suffer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...phenomenon of such elephantine best-sellers as Anthony Adverse and Gone With The Wind first-line critics have contributed little except a few quarantine signs'. Those signs, mostly ignored, warned generally against what Aldous Huxley calls "that doughy, woolly, anodyne writing [which] ... we read because we suffer when we have time to spare and no printed matter with which to plug the void . . . because the-second nature of habituated readers abhors a vacuum. . . ." That readers continue to put their faith in publishers' ads rather than critics' warnings was well evidenced by the case of the fat historical...
...superintendent of the dining halls claims that he must either stand a loss or make a profit, the undergraduate undoubtedly feels that it would suit his stomach better for him to suffer the former. It was admitted that last year the account's of the House dining halls showed a profit; therefore it is too much to expect that the University can at least succeed in breaking even at the end of the present season without either raising the rates or, most dangerous, cheapening the quality...
...with infinite terrors, and the explorations, and the final failures and ultimate defeat of that gallant seafarer. He smiled, thinking of the way the sea often wins out against the boldest plans of men, of the mystery of the sea that made men still love to sail it, and suffer on it, and sometimes conquer...
...Cummings off guard, forced him to admit that Mr. Heflin had been doing some kind of nebulous work for the Department of Justice since July 1936. Salary: $6,000 a year. The New York Sim's Phelps Adams dug deeper, learned just how much old Tom had to suffer in his supplication for jobs: after six months on the payroll, Tom had to wait more than a month before Mr. Cummings reappointed him, after that had to wait another month before he wangled his name back on the payroll for three more months...
...Pennsylvania, but both railroads kept to their own backyards until a scandalously promoted third line, the West Shore, began paralleling Vanderbilt's tracks along the west bank of the Hudson to the Port of New York. Angry clear through he decided that if the Central was to suffer from competition close to home, so was the Pennsylvania. Acquiring the "South Penn" charter, Vanderbilt declared a railroad war, sent 300 engineers and thousands of laborers trooping into the rugged, coal-bearing Alleghenies, with orders to build a competing road 25 mi. south of the Pennsylvania's main Harrisburg-Pittsburgh...