Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus five young couples would be tided over their period of early struggle, and the five women should not suffer much if chosen from "easy bearing" families and given "twilight sleep." One of the couples would be "scientifically sure" to win the prize, and from his $50,000 the investor (whatever his motives) would have made the enormous profit of $1,450,000 in nine years...
...They are showing the people of America that scholars are not necessarily metaphysically minded thinkers. The more often college teachers can show themselves to be interested in practical problems the better it will be for the cause of education, and it need be no foregone conclusion that politics would suffer...
...intellectual and the spiritual life of his day and of our day, that boasts no such imperishable testimonials. Those human things that caused it, his smile and his grave placidity, his honesty and his courage, his unerring appreciation of human values in life as in teaching, are certain to suffer some strange sea-change. Some of us today have random personal memories upon which these legends will be built; the tributes that his ninety-two years of useful life called forth will be food for still others. The something rich and strange that his name will be to future generations...
Will he refuse to have his titles confirmed, suffer seizure and trust the U. S. Government to secure for him redress; or will he accept a 50-year lease in exchange for a title in perpetuity, on the assump tion that the U. S. Government never will secure for him what it considers his rights...
...musical comedy song-might well have gone back to another inventor of Bologna, Italy, who lived centuries before Guglielmo Marconi. This wight was a butcher, too fat to fight but keenly alive to the tortures of hunger which soldiers often suffer. As the warriors of Bologna prepared one time to sally forth against the Milanese, he conceived the notion of supplying many of them with chopped beef, pork and veal, seasoned and stuffed tightly into the intestinal tubing of a pig. He showed them how they might wind this provender about their necks or waists to carry it easily...