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Last week was a week of torment for a Chicago dentist and his wife. Dr. & Mrs. Herman Colan could not decide whether to have their newborn daughter's eyes taken out, or to let her die from the tumor which was blinding her and which, if not immediately stopped by surgery or X-rays, was sure to reach her brain. The infant's left eye first showed the growth when she was four weeks old. If surgeons had removed that eye at once, the child's right eye might have been saved. The distracted parents turned...
Stop-Over (by Matt and Sam Taylor; produced by Chase Productions, Inc.). To prove that suffering regenerates the human spirit, the Brothers Taylor coop up an odd lot of sinners for one night, torment them with gunplay and passion, turn them loose before dawn, chastened and wiser...
Purpose of the Conference is, according to the announcement, to give university men a factual knowledge of a problem which "will remain to torment the nation for years to come," and also to supplement this theoretical information by contact with "older men who know the problem from direct experience." The discussions "have a singlehearted aim: to analyze all major policies and see what each entails...
...Everything was swaying as though motivated by a giant dish-washing machine. Oh! that dull throbbing around the temples! that clammy, sticky, dry, clogged feeling in his throat and upper tonsils. Would those mittens on his teeth ever wear off? Little pricks and barbed darts of conscience began to torment him as he thought of that ten page paper for Slavic Oology due tomorrow, and on which he had put absolutely no work whatsoever. The professor had been noticing his absences of late, so that would make it doubly hard to get an extension. Yes, there was no doubt about...
...Hollow, yes, like my mind. Dark, long thoughts envelop my brain fibres; the process of thinking is one constant torment, one anguish that has no end nor beginning. I'm not saying anything, foolish person; I am only feeling, feeling the pits of despondecy...