Word: suffer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This coming Saturday afternoon the Army band will parade on Soldiers Field in all its resplendent garb and martial array, and the rival Harvard band will likewise march and will likewise suffer from the comparison, especially from the aspect of precision and novelty of performance. Admitting that the U. S. Military Academy would be a rather lofty standard to which the Harvard band should conform, still the performances of last week and the week before have only clinched the impression that an evolution is in order. Regardless of musical excellence, gold braid and epaulets with really snappy formations create...
...owners and their vast political importance. Mr. Roosevelt, whose whole program is an infelicitous falling between the stools of Marx and Mill, has already had occasion to discover that the capitalists will not brook serious interference in the other parts of their program. Surely they will not suffer him, or his successors, to block them in a path so clear and vital as this. POLLUX...
...classified with the racketeer of the present day? There are a good many 'longtimers' in here and other similar institutions who have had nothing to do with the outside or its affairs for many years, and it is these men, it seems, who will have to suffer and bear the brunt of public sentiment, because many years ago they made mistakes. Don't blame the 'oldtimers' for what is going on in the outside world. They are innocent of existing conditions. . . . Let them share your joy in the New Deal...
...catch. Every peasant, in order to retain his status, must be "honorable"- the requisite degree of honor being defined as ''honorable enough to pay his debts if he is able to do so after proper administration of his land." Peasants who flagrantly cheat their creditors will suffer a peculiar penalty: the cheater's estate will pass while he is yet living to his heir. If the heir turns out to be a cheat, his heir gets the estate, and so on until an "honorable peasant" is found to hold the homestead...
Besides unripeness, babies suffer a violent shock during the process of being born. The shock shifts the water content of the body cells, also makes them unfit to retain water. The baby is water-starved. To overcome dehydration due to birth shock, Dr. Kugelmass has tried feeding newborns a solution of gelatin, salt and dextrose...