Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...habit of renaming Anatolian villages to suit Hittite history has long kept Turkish railway ticket sellers on the jump. When, two years ago, Dictator Kamal Ataturk first made up his mind that the 80,000 Turks of the Sanjak of Alexandretta of French-mandated Syria would suffer unduly under independent Syrian rule, he began his campaign for an autonomous Sanjak by calling the region "Hatay." While sanjak is an old Turkish word meaning district, Hatay was the still older name of the old Hittite Empire. Early this summer the Sanjak became autonomous under joint French and Turkish protection. Last week...
This bit of typical British sentiment was not matched, however, when the British Army said a far more significant farewell. Like the horses of the 4th & 7th, three full generals, four lieutenant generals, six major generals were retired before their time, not because anyone feared to see them suffer in battle but because plump, red-tape cutting War Secretary Leslie Hore-Belisha wanted to promote young men with new ideas. The retirement age for the two highest ranks having been cut from 67 to 60, and of major generals from 62 to 57, the Army Gazette simply listed the retirements...
...with its most furious anti-Czechoslovak campaign thus far; Herr Hitler mobilized 1,000,000 men along the eastern frontiers of Germany; and the Czechoslovak Reserve Officers' Association led Prague patriotic groups last week in demanding that the Government call on Czechoslovaks to fight and if necessary suffer bloody defeat, rather than tamely yield even a fraction of the nation's sovereignty...
...expatriate writers left in Europe is Kay Boyle, 35, Minnesota-born. Her short stories and novels still suffer from the elliptical writing that flourished in post-War Paris. They are difficult reading not because her prose is obscure, but because her characters are puzzling neurotics and she does not seem to know...
...adjoining map shows how (Texas excluded) the South's six biggest industrial centres have grown since 1914. That Louisville grew most is due partly to tobacco, partly to liquor, and partly to the fact that, lying on the Ohio, it does not suffer from the freight-rate disparities which Governors of other Southern States last week were protesting...