Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...discoveries, of incalculable value to farmers, was that seeds sprout most quickly if kept cold (41°) and dry between harvest and planting. Others followed in slow but steady succession. Some kinds of apples with green-colored skins may be just as ripe and tasty as red apples but suffer in market competition because buyers like the appearance of red apples. It was learned that 48 hours of ultraviolet radiation turns green-colored apples a beautiful, even, overall shade...
...Dickens and a generation after him slept heading toward the north because they thought that they might suffer harm while lying criss-cross to the earth's magnetic field. To insulate themselves from that imagined magnetic effect people stood their beds on glass, "nonconducting" casters...
...landlordship to the Negros is one of circumstance rather than design, for Harlem's color once was predominantly Jewish-white, and when the better Negro sought a better-than-slum home only the compassionate Jew would suffer him to rent such a domicile. The influx of all other Negroes soon forced the Jew out but into the housing business...
...waited upon by a depressed delegation led by four Cotton Senators-Georgia's George, South Carolina's Smith and Byrnes, Alabama's Bankhead. Gloomily they told the President that unless the New Deal does something new, different and soon for cotton, the South will suffer its worst economic 'blow since the Civil War. They then sketched Cotton's woeful case history...
Whatever loss of efficiency France and Russia may suffer in timed of crisis by appealing to the League, it is worth the risk. Under the forthcoming treaty, the League is given the opportunity of trying to avert the war. If it fails, the military staffs are immediately free to plunge at each other's throat. Once again solicitous France has injected adrenalin into the bloodstream of the League with apparent success...