Word: sufferers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Slichter's view was echoed by Gottfried Haberler, professor of Economics, who said the proposal "was not a very good idea." People who are too poor to pay taxes would suffer most, he explained, since they would not receive the benefits of the $40 cut, while still suffering from the higher cost of living...
...that it cannot attract sufficient manpower for its functions, the policy of appointment to the Student Council is no remedy. Not only is this policy entirely undemocratic, but it leaves such disgust in these not inclined to oligarchic philosophies that the prestige of the Student Council must inevitably suffer...
...Harlem, is a relic of the school-building programs of 1888. The building has no gymnasium, and its tiny playground is hardly large enough for one class at a time. It has just seven toilets for 600 boys, provides neither toilet paper nor towels. Children attending the school periodically suffer from scabies, a skin disease usually caused by filth...
...other disease puzzled the Los Angeles Health Department, which blamed it on virus X (so called because its nature is unknown). Its victims commonly suffer gastrointestinal upsets, occasionally inflammation of the nose and throat, and flu-like general aches & pains. Last week, the Los Angeles area had 200,000 victims of virus X. Doctors said there was no connection between virus X and either Q fever or ordinary flu, advised patients: "Call a doctor...
Among the few U.S. novels that did not suffer from paucity of style as well as poverty of theme was Jean Stafford's The Mountain Lion, a funny and tragic little story of children in the West. Another was Bend Sinister, Russian-born Vladimir Nabokov's brilliant nightmare novel of European life at the advent of dictatorship. Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano, an ambitious effort to analyze a modern type of disintegrated personality and to make it universal, failed in the second aim; but his descriptions of a Mexican setting were memorable. The finest short stories...