Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time left for their creative impulse to operate. By formulating this habit, they will undoubtedly in the course of time become perfect phonographic records, and will make no noise unless they are pinned; (2) or they get so bored with the endless requirements, that they decide not to suffer any discipline. Eventually they may spoil their whole life because of this. Good students will follow the first course; self-conceited students usually prefer the second alternative. Neither is highly desirable; both are not uncommon at Harvard...
...sharp ringing sound recognized as the crack of a revolver. This was succeeded by other sinister sounds in rapid succession, twenty-five in all, which indicated all too clearly that the doomed crew had abandoned hope of getting their vessel under way and hand resorted to suicide rather than suffer a slow agonizing death by suffocation...
...intangible barrier has arisen between the peoples. The French orphan is in danger of forgetting the help which he received from his "foster-mother" across the sea; and the American may look with distrust upon the French so-called "militaristic" attitude, and forget what France has had to suffer from German invasion. National prejudice is inevitable, and has caused the two nations to drift apart...
...thinks them; and we can carry goods from one part of the country to another by air at the rate of 225 miles an hour. We are faced by the reverse of the problem confronting us before. Whereas society was once handicapped by lack of transportation, it may now suffer from too much of it. Formerly there was at least time to think, a pause to find the truth between two falsehoods. Now we are hurried along by the pressure of the inventions for communication until there is hardly time to consider what we are communicating. Science has pulled ahead...
...absurdly unsatisfactory method of choosing the victims. If any have got to suffer, it should be those who have the most chances to see the games in the future as undergraduates. The three-ticket allotment should be cut by classes, not by chance, beginning with the Freshman and working up as far as necessary...