Word: sufferer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...continue to be talking text-books. A minority of students would take advantage of the new system to cut, just as they take advantage of the present system to avoid supplementary reading and depend solely on the disconnected facts they glean from lectures. In both cases, however, they would suffer the same penalty as at present --the former by lecturing to empty seats, the latter by premature ejection from the realms of higher education. The true understanding of a subject, as demanded by Princeton's educational ideal, can no more be obtained from a skeletal outline of its material than...
...only plane to leave the ground, so thick was the rain, snow or fog. Although critics might liken his routine to year-round-swimming or marathon tree-sitting, Dr. Brock is not publicity-hungry. He is smart enough to know that his Specialty Optical Co. does not suffer from his own conspicuousness (he was recently received by President Hoover) but he is personally reticent. Last summer he made an aerial tour to every State capital in the U. S., was never more than an hour behind a schedule worked out months in advance. Dr. Brock has now three ships: Taper...
...Suffer me to come to Thee...
Only males can suffer haemophilia. Only females can transmit it. Mysterious and incurable,? this rare disease blighted the last of the Romanovs as it blights the last of the Bourbons. Tsar Nicholas II discovered too late that Tsarina Alexandra was a "carrier," that their son the Tsarevitch Alexis was a haemophile. The frantic mother's efforts to find a cure for her son brought her under the sway of Rasputin, the "Black Monk," who seemed for a time to be able to stop the Tsare-vitch's bleeding and promised a cure. Monk Rasputin's ascendancy over Tsar & Tsarina...
...friend without the meal being paid for twice to the same person who has contracted to give the meal, but at another table,--no, another dining room. As the CRIMSON editorial said: "a man is constrained either to forego his pleasure or to consider himself an uninvited guest and suffer the embarrassment of knowing that he is causing his host a not inconsiderable expense. Conversely, the extra charges involved in entertaining guests of men prevent a House resident from inviting friends to dine with...