Word: painful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...student if levied on graduate men as well as the undergraduate body. No less pressing than the most urgent cavity, the problem cries for solution. A toothache to students, it is a headache to the administration, and a tax seems to be the only powder likely to relieve the pain...
Because of recent changes in Civil Service examinations, men with college training will now find it easier to secure well pain government positions without having had any previous practical experience in their field...
Eurith Dickinson Rivers to Washington, helped in "contacting Federal agencies to obtain funds." Asked if this was not "promotion" (for which PWA clients may not pay on pain of having their contracts voided), Chip responded: "Certainly not. That's organization...
From Mecca, holiest Mohammedan city, infidels are still excluded on pain of death. Last week bazaars buzzed and beards wagged at the announcement that Kings Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia and Farouk of Egypt had agreed to install infidel gadgets, running water and electric light, in the ancient cities of Mecca and Medina, and to build modern highways along the pilgrim routes which now connect them with the outside world. The innovations should stimulate the pilgrim trade on which both cities depend, which will redound to the greater glory of Ibn Saud, Farouk and Allah...
Vetoes. Cardinals are bound, under pain of excommunication, not to discuss conclave matters outside;* not to tell the secrets of the conclave afterward; not to carry commitments into the conclave. But in this election secular diplomats have a big stake in treating the "Most Eminent Princes" of the Church as if they too were secular diplomats. Last week in Rome there was a prodigious whispering and bustling of emissaries around Cardinals' palaces. And in the Rome-Berlin axis there was some clumsy public hinting to the forthcoming conclave. In Germany Das Schwarze Korps warned the four German Cardinals against...