Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Never has it been more possible for the Council to be the legitimate vehicle of student opinion than under the democratic petition-clause of the new constitution. The Council is composed of a comparatively small group of men, and must suffer the fate of all parliaments out of touch with their constituencies unless the members of the University bestir themselves to make their desires and opinions felt...
Physically, the Commission found the present generation of U. S. Youth an unpromising lot. From Life Extension Institute, which had examined 100,000 young men, it learned that 75% suffer from "some sort of health defect." Its own Medical Committee, sampling, turned up 33% with diseased tonsils, 34% with defective vision, 50% with carious teeth. Blamed for this condition was Depression, which curtailed free medical care, recreational facilities...
...goes without saying that the living donor of a cornea should not suffer from syphilis and other infectious diseases or from some infection of the eye. Unfortunately, however, material of this sort is rather scarce and no matter how much one may economize with eyes removed from patients in eye clinics and in hospitals the available number of such eyes will not be sufficient to supply all cases where a transplantation is necessary...
...cinemaddicts with the most rudimentary knowledge of the facts of life. Brilliantly directed by William Wyler and acted by an admirable cast, These Three remains on the screen what The Children's Hour is on the stage-a calmly bloodcurdling investigation of what several honorable adults can suffer at the untender mercies of one dishonorable child...
Retail Trade, usually the first to suffer from bad weather, was conspicuously good throughout the winter. February chain-store sales were as much as 14% above the same month last year. The Federal Reserve Board reported department store-sales last month up 13% from the year before, gains ranging from 5% in the Minneapolis Reserve district to 22% in the Cleveland district. In the past few weeks wholesalers have been swamped with orders. That curious figure, the Fairchild index of Buyers' Arrivals in Manhattan, was nearly 15% above the same week a year ago. Retail merchandise deliveries...