Word: sufferance
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...people who are able to exert no such pressure that suffer most form the inflated currency. Women workers, students, salaried employes, and people with fixed incomes are especially hard hit by the country's financial disintegration...
...CRIMSON is willing to stand convicted of the crime of attempting to present interesting news in an interesting manner. It is willing to stand convicted of the crime of attempting to escape that deadly dryness that dogs the footsteps of every academic publication. If these are crimes it will suffer for them. But if, on the other hand, they are worth-while efforts, it stands to win. Safer and saner is that paper that "along the cool sequestered vale of life" pursues "the noiseless tenor of its way;" it risks nothing; it will lose nothing; it will win nothing...
...workers, bought the paper. The pinko-progressive press hailed the change as an epoch in the annals of Labor and Journalism. But it seems that Labor is even less competent as a journalist than Socialism. The paper came too near the rocks and is in a fair way to suffer a sea-change, strange, if not rich...
...time has come when the academic man must exert his influence to put an end to the repression of those things which he believes in, and for which many men suffer...
...conditions of Europe influence the newspapers even more than the newspapers influence the condition of Europe. The journals of Europe--and by that I mean continental Europe, to the exclusion of England whose standards are very like our own,--are but a part of the entire continental system. They suffer from its inadequacies and they are effected by its prejudices. They are the reflection of the continental state of mind...