Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Robert C. Crichton '50 took the prize for his story, "Suffer the Little Children," which appeared in the December issue. The award, now in its second year, is made each May to the best work in the Lampoon, Advocate, CRIMSON, or other undergraduate publication...
...major defect in the present method, by which the government maintains a minimum price by loans or purchases, is that consumers often suffer by high prices. The Brannan plan continues government loans and purchases for storable goods, about 25 percent of total farm output, but changes the price-setting formula. Producers are satisfied with this method and want it retained...
...Joseph Goldstein and others who consider The Merchant of Venice anti-Semitic [TIME, April 4], I would suggest they . . . reread the play with the open-mindedness they ask of others. Viewed from the 20th Century, the Christians make a pretty poor showing, on the whole. It is they who suffer from delusions of grandeur and indulge freely in insults and jibes; it is they who . . . mouth words like mercy and justice, only to evade an honest bargain by means of a cheap legal trick...
Professor Emerson, the head of the department, rounds out the bulk of the international section with a course on International Organization and one on Nationalism in International Relations. Unfortunately he is by far the dullest lecturer of the group and his classes suffer accordingly...
...October 1944 he entered a Navy Officer Candidate School, and was assigned to various naval stations and a submarine on the North Atlantic convey lanes. Farber is particularly bitter about the stretch he served in Denmark. "The Danes suffered very little from war," Farber writes. "All that they had to suffer was the loss of political and economic freedom. . . they had a good living and never any starvation, not like in Germany after the occupation by allied troops." Farber says Germany needs its economic freedom, and suggests the U. S. develop his country as a market for surplus goods...