Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...impossible to draw a line between amateurism and professionalism upon any other premise than that of sport for sport's sake on the amateur side, and sport for the living, in whole or in part, which can be had therefrom on the professional side. As of old, the innocent suffer for the guilty and the high-minded and idealistic head of the physical education department of a university, so far as amateur competition is concerned, must suffer by reason of the risk involved in permitting him to compete as an amateur because of the low-minded, non-idealistic, dishonest money...
...violated the constitutional laws of the empire." The Shah explained his own long residence in Europe, which has been attributed to a taste for European "high life," by saying: "I have thought it necessary, in order to avoid all international agitation, which would have caused my country to suffer, to leave my country and by this sacrifice show how fully I disapprove of the illegal arbitrary acts of Reza Khan...
...Glenn Hunter after his long and brilliant occupation in Merton of the Movies is one of the important autumn happenings. He fulfilled in a different and far more serious part the expectations of his followers. He plays a school boy of England and makes the character live and suffer notably...
...butler belongs the cellar and butteries, and all from thenceforth to the farthest end of the south porch; to the cook the kitchen, larder, and the way leading to the hatch, the turret, and the north alley unto the walk; neither shall the butler or cook suffer any scholar or scholars whatever, except the Fellows, Masters of Art, fellow commoners, or, officers of the House, to come into the butteries or kitchen, save with their parents or guardians, or with some grave and sober strangers; and, if any shall presume to thrust in, they shall have three pence on their...
...many instances completely lost. It is only after the season is over that he can look back with any pleasure on what he has been through and then the feeling of pleasure is commensurate largely on the degree of the team's success. In almost any sport you can suffer reverses and not feel that the world is coming to an end, but not in football...