Word: aetna
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...authors of the Culex and Ciris and Aetna were mediocre poets, and worse, and the gods and men and booksellers whom they affronted by existing allotted them for transcription to worse than mediocre scribes. The Ciris was indited by a twaddler, and the Culex and Aetna by stutterers: but what they stuttered and twaddled was Latin, not double-Dutch; and great part of it is now double-Dutch and Latin no more ... Here then, between poets capable of much and copyists capable of anything, is a promising field for the exercise of tact and caution; a prudent editor will...
...casualty company. Defiantly, Wilde hired Attorney Thomas E. Dewey, and in a five-year legal battle won the right to control a casualty company if it is operated separately. Last week, victory in hand, Wilde submitted to New York officials a new plan to buy the $314 million Aetna Insurance Co., a fire and casualty company unrelated to the big Aetna Life insurance complex...
...Spirits Fail." He came late to the field he has made intuitively his own. John Franklin Enders was born in Hartford, Conn., in 1897, the son of a banker and grandson of a founder of Aetna Life Insurance Co. He has a childhood memory of Mark Twain, a friend of the family, coming to call in a characteristic white suit. From St. Paul's, where he rowed in the crew, played hockey and football. Enders went to Yale, only to have his education interrupted by World War I. He joined the Naval Reserve Flying Corps, became a flight instructor...
...Force's Dr. von Gierke says: "It impairs both manual dexterity and accuracy." A normally accurate, responsible aircraft mechanic may unconsciously rush, through his work, do a slipshod job, if he happens to be working in the neighborhood of a whining jet exhaust. When officials of Aetna Life Insurance Co. cut office noise levels 14.5% by installing acoustic wallboard, they found that typists' errors dropped 29%, machine operators' errors fell 52%, employee turnover decreased 47%, and absenteeism declined...
...University Health Services plan, underwritten by Aetna Insurance Company, provides up to $5,000 for illness or injury (except for mental illness or tuberculosis). Farnsworth deemed the plan "far and away the least expensive student health plan of which I know." The reason for the low cost, he stated, was the "good health record" students have attained in recent years...