Word: discomfort
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...While labor tends to eliminate its striking habits, and the new draftees, their awkwardness, we perceive the United States getting ever stronger. Even the most energetic pessimist, lately at the height of his powers, suffers a serious repulse. His old standby, the submarine campaign, will soon be useless. His discomfort and lack of subjects prevent our hearing how bad conditions are. Although the warnings of a true pessimist may spur us on to more vigorous action, yet they tend to bring comfort to our enemies. Too much optimism, however, is little more valuable, in spite of the fact that...
...many hundreds of men on the battle-fields and the battle seas of Europe, to know that there are eleven good men and true, wearing the crimson jersey and pushing the muddy ball down the long field against the tide of defeat. Memory holds men more strongly than present discomfort. There are many loyal sons of Harvard, who, though disaster compass them about, will forget their weariness of limb and spirit when they hear the news from how that the team played a great game. Theirs will be the clear remembrance of pleasanter hours, which may not be eradicated...
...will inoculate members of the University against typhoid free of charge. The treatment is attended by but little discomfort. Not one of the one hundred and Seventy-five men who were inoculated last spring was confined to the Infirmary...
...rooms on the top floor of Standish Hall will probably not be assigned on account of the discomfort of them during extremely hot wather. The College will furnish all rooms with lines and towels, as well as the necessary heavy furniture...
...that a theatrical company is engaged to give a performance in Panama; but, on their arrival, they discover that they have been misled and that the whole engagement was a plot conceived by the Revolutionists in order to capture them. They are held in captivity with no apparent discomfort, and will continue to be there for some time as far as we will ever know. Needless to say, the music is the chief feature of the play, the plot being moulded in accordance with the customs betrayed in the present-day musical comedy. The songs are marvels of brilliancy...