Word: albert
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Mark Metcalf, 35, of Berkeley, Calif., endured weeks of pain that "felt like I had a hot iron held against the side of my neck," and he found himself "considering suicide as a rational alternative." Every year a number of the chronically suffering make that choice. Pain, said Albert Schweitzer, "is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death himself...
...early '70s Schultes used his experiences to co-author a book on the botany and chemistry of hallucinogens, with Albert Hofmann, the discoverer...
...Harvard's most prominent Middle East specialists, Albert J. Meyer died of cancer in October at the age of 64 Meyer, an economist and specialist in the oil industry, had played a major role, in fundraising for the Center for Middle East Studies, obtaining large amounts of money from private corporations...
...collection, compiled by Professor of Slavic Literature Emeritus Albert B. Lord '34 and his teacher, Milman Parry, is the result of the pair's interviews with native storytellers over a period of 40 years beginning when Lord was an undergraduate...
...upstairs at the White House. He saw almost no one. Edith Wilson began receiving Cabinet members in the next room, relaying what she said were her husband's wishes. Wilson's enemies on Capitol Hill claimed that she had taken over the Administration. "Mrs. Wilson is President!" shouted Senator Albert Fall of New Mexico. "We have petticoat government...