Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Laval is a strange man," continued Privat. "He never says anything, but he always does what I tell him. His feelings are entirely in accord with mine. The year 1935 was an exceptionally good year for him. This year 1936 will be less good for him. He will shortly suffer a setback. Thereafter his comeback will be tremendous. He will live a long time and die a great statesman...
...intestinal diseases has been checked by water supply and sewerage works and by the sanitary production and distribution of foods; insect-borne diseases have yielded to proper engineering measures for the control of insects and their animal hosts; and it is hoped that many of the respiratory diseases will suffer marked reduction by devising engineering means for the control of the air supply of enclosed occupied spaces. It should be evident that public health are, in a large measure, an engineering undertaking and that the teaching and advancement of this art the conservation and promotion of the is a proper...
...South America," hissed Minkin at the Continent, "will suffer...
...personally familiar with events in Ethiopia since then say that the Emperor for years played Italian and other foreign concessionaires for suckers until Benito Mussolini gradually evolved his theory that the White Race is being aggressively menaced and must recover the dynamic attitude of Victorian England or ultimately suffer eclipse. Japan, during Depression, secured virtually the whole of Ethiopia's import business in cotton piece goods, while Italians were supplying Haile Selassie with a powerful radio station at cut rates. As soon as it was in working order, His Majesty turned around and fired the whole Italian staff...
...Deal of Hoare & Laval. In the House of Commons fortnight ago the Prime Minister was never in danger because his Conservative Party held an absolute majority and not even Stanley Baldwin's worst enemies ever predicted that he, as the engineer of the Tory political machine, could suffer a backfire of moral indignation from its stout innards. Not being his own Foreign Secretary, Mr. Baldwin could and did make a scapegoat of Sir Samuel Hoare. After that he stated the future Ethiopian policy of His Majesty's Government in terms so ambiguous that even this week new Foreign...