Word: sufferer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hopes these rules will give it what it thought it was gaining when Section ya became law. The company unions will supposedly suffer. The A. F. of L., being already organized, will have a distinct advantage over all other unions. It can bide its time until it gains a majority of the workers in any plant, then secure an election," and with its majority gain the sole right of bargaining in that plant, a hold which it is not likely to lose once gained, for no employe could have any object in joining a minority union...
Amenities of the serving staff in the Halls is not a subject for investigation by harried committees of overseers, nor an omission that the matrons would allow the committee of ladies who sample our food to suffer. Neither is it a biological necessity on a par with whole some food. Yet it has a certain importance along with such trivialities as neckties, clean hands, and the absence of too many Anglo-Saxon nionosyllables from our speech--which can be summed up under the single word, "manners...
Poland, a nation who has learned how to suffer since at least the eighteenth century, knows today that her troubles have just begun. When the body of Marshal Pilsudski has been laid in Wawel Castle beside his nation's heroes, Poles will be forced to put aside their black crepe and face the gloomiest of realities. Before them is the acid test of dictatorship: the question of what to do when a state which has been raised upon the personality of one man finds that he is gone. If history means anything, the autocracy has one of two fates...
Arthritis. Dr. Ralph Pemberton of Philadelphia gave this advice both to those who suffer from atrophic arthritis (affliction of youngish people) and hypertrophic arthritis (affliction of old people): "About 80% of persons suffering from chronic arthritis should be greatly relieved and, if the bony changes have not gone too far, actual cure is often possible [by general therapy]. There is no short cut to this goal, and the patient must be able to supply the necessary pertinacity, patience and cooperation, especially in long standing cases, if he is to emerge on a new plane of health...
...Vagabond chortles. For him "Spring's first flutes and drums" sound this morning; he has arisen, with an impulse of exquisite malice, at 8.30 and sits on the edge of his bed, knowing that the world is good and that men suffer. Already a few of the damned have twitched into topcoats and have set out on their mumbling way to the Yard. For each of them the Vagabond has a hypocritical smile of sympathy...