Word: suffering
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Even the college editors, well-informed as they are supposed to be, suffer from the same handicap of having only faulty images on which to base what they will say. The fault is, of course, not peculiar to college students; what is called public opinion is built on a foundation as shaky. Neither should the blame lie wholly on the undergraduates; in most universities there are conditions which keep from the student intimate knowledge of events. But where opinion can be based only on impressions it will never have more than a transitory value...
Once there were only a few men fools enough to suffer. Then came this Athletics-for-All Policy. Where one man hobbled over the Bridge with his limbs red with Mercurochrome, now there are ten. Where one man went mad learning signals, there are dozens...
...Harvard: Fair and Cooler," he has done his-best to scare up a half dozen pages worth of "human interest" in one of our oldest and most tradition-bound colleges. In proving the central point of his article: "that Harvard men suffer from a painful tradition that they must appear to be indifferent when they are not," he has as usual fallen far short of success. But once again he has been moderately successful in being amusing. That the Crimson has taken Mr. Roberts' penny shocker seriously only adds to the entertainment of the general public. Cornell Daily...
...newspapers this became: "Too much sunlight is conducive to cancer of the skin. Thus agricultural workers, sailors and others exposed to the sun are apparently more apt to suffer from the disease than the rest of mankind. The radiation lamps, the review says, cause the same reaction and have elements of danger...
...down at Ormond Beach, Fla., last week, playing a little golf and enjoying the religiously regular daily schedule that has kept him alive to the age of 89½ years. He made no public statement on his son's battle with Col. Stewart, although his routine was likely to suffer interruption. For there was not a shadow of a doubt that he was heart and soul for the son, upon whom rests all affairs of Rockefeller fortune and philanthropy, and who sinks to his knees every night to ask God that he may be more like his father...