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Word: suffering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pointing to the Abbé, defendant Maurice Lourdin cried: "There sits the Devil, Satan himself! . . . He is the greatest sorcerer of the age. He can make people die, with or without pain, as he desires. . . . He sent upon us awful maladies. I suffer from them. . . . Our Sainted Mother suffers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Abb | 2/1/1926 | See Source »

...poor nuts'," continued the producer, who was a student at the University of Indiana, "are found in every college just as in every other walk of life. They are the inveterate members of the 'cellar gang' of college fraternities, the self-deprecating youths, who suffer from nothing other than the well known 'inferiority complex'. Ordinarily this is merely a stage through which the young man of average ability passes when he first comes into the realization that his early dreams of fame which are the common property of all youngsters, are not materializing. Usually he recovers after the first blow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nugent and McNutt, of "Poor Nut" Fame, Discuss College and the Stage and the Poor Nuts Often Found in Both | 1/25/1926 | See Source »

...freedom accruing to undergraduates should sight be lost of the benefits, perhaps indirect to be gained by the Faculty. When the responsible student becomes sole judge of the comparative advantages to himself of attendance or absence at a given lecture those lecturers on whom the verdict is unfavorable will suffer a sharp awakening from empty classrooms. In its tonic effect on dull and profitless instructors lies by no means the least promise of Yale Harvard's new departure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AND NOW YALE | 1/19/1926 | See Source »

...high as a six-story building piled up in the Theiss River. The Hungarian army expended three-fourths of the stock of ammunition allowed to it under existing treaties in a vain effort to shoot up this veritable iceberg, which caused the famed Tokay wine region to suffer a flood loss of ten billion crowns ($100,000). Angry Hungarians ran about shrieking that the Roumanian Government had aggravated the floods by opening certain sluice gates in violation of the Treaty of the Trianon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Floods | 1/11/1926 | See Source »

...crumbling of the eternal Sphinx is a catastrophe of would-wide concern. Should the attempt of the Egyptian government to repair the monster prove unavailing, the superiority complex of man must suffer. He will be forced to adroit that an alliance of vagrant winds and inanimate sand has defeated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MODERNIZING METHUSELAH | 12/22/1925 | See Source »

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