Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Such was the Lewis keynote: that men like himself suffer burning soul-frustration in the U. S., where "criticism ... is a chill activity pursued by jealous spinsters, former baseball reporters [i. e. Heywood Broun], and acid professors. . . . Our American professors like their literature clear, cold, pure and very dead...
...Einstein especially dreaded his reception in New York. He remembered his visit nine years ago when, to find peace from questioning, he fled to the roof of Manhattan's Commodore Hotel, played his violin alone among the chimneys. "I suffer more than anybody can imagine," he said then...
While asserting that training was an important item in preparing for a fight, the ex-sailor said he knew many fighters who would smoke two packages of cigarettes in the dressing-room before a match and not suffer from short-winded-ness. Sharkey's idea of having a good time after a fight is just relaxing and eating a lot of pie, cake, and ice-cream. When he is training, if he feels a craving for non-training table food, Sharkey will take a bit of pie, or a drink of milk rather than let himself worry. Hunting...
...were to fly 10,000 miles annually in regularly scheduled U. S. transport planes, he might suffer a crackup in the 39th year; might be killed in the 282nd. Were the same man to cover the same distance in random flights (instruction, sightseeing, joyhopping, et al.) he might anticipate an accident every 5.8 years, prepare for death in the 36th. These chances are based upon the civil air accident record for January-June 1930, published last week by the Department of Commerce...
...Ware radio did suffer a temporary eclipse, but it was only temporary, and it is far from dead. The new Ware Manufacturing Corp. has been actively engaged in development work during the past two years. Last year it marketed a small line of high-class receivers entirely representative of the Ware reputation. . . . The Ware company has the nucleus of a strong distributor organization throughout the important sections of the U. S., and is now in production on the Ware Bantam, a diminutive receiver which we will all hear a lot about in the next few months...