Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...contemporary order, a "coaster" (poule de luxe) of the Chinese shoreline. The other characters are a group of the ill-assorted personages customarily assembled for "one location" stories-a sour-tongued missionary, an old lady with a lapdog, a U. S. gambler, a German opium dealer who seems to suffer from chilblains, an oriental trollop, a half-breed Chinese named Henry Chang, a British Army surgeon with an Addisonian turn of speech. In the up-to-date habit of Transatlantic, Union Depot and Grand Hotel, they are all inhabiting a train of luxurious Pullmans bound from Peiping to Shanghai. When...
...problematical whether the six selected prodigies will be happy in their collegiate surroundings. Their physical limitations will restrict their participation in athletics and at college socal functions they will feel hopelessly out of place. Forced to assume an air of deference their more mature classmates, they will in consequence suffer a loss of self-confidence...
...prodigies minds; it will not be serving their best interests. Perhaps the best solution for the problem of the intellectually advanced student would be to retard him early in his school career rather than to delay his entrance into college after graduation from preparatory school. He would then suffer no loss of interest in intellectual matters when his powers were maturing, and could still enter college with the preparatory class with he graduated, fully equipped to participate in all branches of activity...
...sight of men being oppressed, and then suppressed when they have stepped into legal traps, was too painful for him to bear without protest. He makes no altruistic pretensions, says honestly: "It was really my lively imagination which put me in the other fellow's place and made me suffer with him; so I only relieved him to help myself...
...present statement of the Student Council is circulated sufficiently there should be no immediate riot. If one occurs, the offenders will deserve to suffer any severe action which the University might take...