Word: sufferer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although he is now 74, he still works assiduously. This year he published Civilization and Its Discontents,- a psychoanalyst's survey of modern civilization. We suffer, today, from a cultural super ego, he states. This super ego is a kind of acute group conscience which prohibits and censors the individual, emphasizes standards to be lived up to rather than happiness which is the natural goal of men. As an individual becomes neurotic under these conditions, so the whole of humanity may develop a neurosis. The super ego is a manifestation of aggressiveness, one of the two great antagonistic forces...
...Oxon, will utterly abandon his ideally enlightened self to the diligent pursuance of any task not altogether turpiludicrous. Will not suffer his already-disgusted self to consider programmes redolent of get-rich-in-a-hurry schemes. Romantic ladies kindly neutral. Address...
...markets with their production and require ever expanding foreign markets to absorb their high-speed manufactures. Seeing their business in the light of world economics (as taught by Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover), they feared their foreign customers would cease to sell over a higher tariff wall, would thereby suffer reduced income and buying power, would of necessity stop purchasing U. S. merchandise. If U. S. export trade drops, potent manufacturers envisage a corresponding drop in their production, their profits, their employed labor. Only about 6% of U. S. production is exported but to tycoons whose business has outgrown...
...fasting until death the following organs suffer the following loss of weight: nervous system 1% to 2%; bones 10% to 15%; organs containing much albumin such as blood, glands, muscles, 40% to 50%; adipose tissue...
Although "fagging" has been abolished at some institutions, many a middle and upper-class Englishman likes to believe that the rigors of public school life fit youngsters to become Backbone-of-the-Empire. Evidence of the childish cruelty which Fag Fairhurst was made to suffer was given at the coroner's inquest...