Word: enjoyability
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...earth and laden with my sin." At the tender age of eight he hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide. He was restrained from any such self violence, however, by the desire to know more mathematics. Be emerged from this adolescent slough of despond to enjoy a happy and fruitful manhood. In "The Conquest of Happiness" Mr. Russell lays down his method in achieving this amazing metamorphosis with the hope that his experiences may be of some use to the world at large...
...system tended to diminish the jollity of college life. If anything, it has increased it. They say in the Navy, "A strict ship is a happy ship", and a student at Rollins soon discovers that the definitely required study periods, with their inescapable exactments, leave him at liberty to enjoy to the full what remains of his waking hours. In his recreation, he is never haunted by the thought, "Hang it! I'm fooling away time when I ought to be studying...
...checks. Said J. E. Fenton, Acting Prime Minister in the absence of James Henry Scullin (on his way back from the Imperial Conference at London): "I am very hopeful that if we continue to pull together we will soon find come out of the black cloud of depression and enjoy the sunlight of prosperity...
...have been a reader of TIME for over two years now and enjoy it immensely, but there is one thing I do not like about it. This is your Miscellany column. It seems to me that every item in it tells of some gruesome way of somebody being killed or committing suicide. Why don't you print something else in this column...
...same day musing, muddling Stanley Baldwin (not half so sure of his mission from On High as is Lucy) talked to a student audience at the University of Glasgow of which this year he is Lord Rector. "Whatever the cares of the day, I always enjoy my breakfast," mused he. "Every morning I am full of hope, faith and cheer. By lunch time I've lost a great deal of it and by evening I've nearly given up all hope of this world or the next...