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Word: sufferred (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bryn Mawr students, faculty and administrators feared that if Haverford should become fully coeducational, the spirit of cooperation between the two schools would suffer...

Author: By Peter B. Mark, | Title: Compromise Decision on Going Coed Announced at Haverford | 12/13/1976 | See Source »

...some point during his last days in the humid, blacked?out bedroom his kidneys failed, and he began to suffer uremic poisoning. As the subsequent autopsy disclosed, his kidneys had atrophied to less than half their normal size and weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Scenes from the Hidden Years | 12/13/1976 | See Source »

...Director Herbert Ross concentrates so much on conveying subtle layers of correspondences and contrasts that the movie is ultimately stifled by them. One is meant to enjoy all the delicate ironies of the situation presented, but because the movie consists of nothing more, it ends up being tedious. It suffers, we suffer, from the detached way in which scenes and situations are presented. The director never becomes involved with his material. He plays a game with the characters and situations and we too are meant to enjoy the technique and craftsmanship of the film rather than be involved...

Author: By Margot A. Patterson, | Title: The 93 Per Cent Problem | 12/11/1976 | See Source »

Other sections suffer, however, from a lack of narrative development, or an overemphasis on the explicitly political. Andrew Prescott's to his sister, for example, seem no more than standard historical accounts, from a radical perspective, of America's staggering towards independence. A frightening glimpse of the imperialist mind in its heyday, Stuart Rantoul's letters to Teddy Roosevelt have strikingly little literary merit...

Author: By Julia M. Klein, | Title: Behind every great man | 12/8/1976 | See Source »

Daterman knows the pheromone's power from personal experience: "You can take a shower, shave, wash your clothes, and the moths will still find you." Nonetheless, Daterman is willing to suffer the indignity of the moths' affections for the sake of insect control. After all, he says, "it's only embarrassing in the presence of another scientist who knows what the moth has on his mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Flame to the Moth | 12/6/1976 | See Source »

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