Word: discomfort
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...Springfield and all strangers that the walls of that dull city contained awoke on the morning of July 19 and anxiously calculated the probabilities. The dull, threatening sky promised nothing better than discomfort to the male, and no possible display of finery to the female spectators of the Third Intercollegiate Regatta...
...another, or watch them from beyond hearing distance, those who compel us to do such things cannot imagine how great an incentive to resignation it would be if a few more of them would keep us company. Misery loves company, and it is a great aggravation to our discomfort that we are never permitted to see tutor or professor with hair unkempt and coat buttoned up around his throat. Men who would show such a lofty disregard for their own comfort might assuredly think themselves entitled to urge self-abnegation upon others; but O that those who have already reached...