Word: alvan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...monochrome which he had delivered still wet to the galleries. The London Times thought that it was "full of recklessly mingled details." In the portraits, every detail counted. The elaborate flowered background lent a heavy air of luxury to his portrait of Massachusetts' onetime Governor Alvan T. Fuller. John had hesitated at first to accept that commission because of Fuller's part in the Sacco-Vanzetti case. ("Would his share in the tragedy invalidate him as a subject for my brush?") The question did not trouble him long...
...Sinus. A penicillin aerosol (spray) which, when inhaled, gives excellent results against inflammation of the sinuses, bronchitis, bronchial asthma and lung abscesses was described in the New York Journal of Medicine by famed asthma specialist Alvan L. Barach, of Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons...
...Class of 1946: Gordon Prentiss Baird, Alvan Samuel Berner, Joseph Jay Bernstein, William Aloysius Cahill, Ashley Hale Carter, William Arthur Cawley, Marvin Arthur Collier, Panaghioti Constantin Cotzias, Thomas Richard Drew, Jr., Joseph Austin Erickson, Jr., Robert Louis Feinberg, John Gilman Foster, Robert John Gabler, John Richard Gilman, Jr., Leon Arnold Green, John Joseph Hall, Lee Montgomery Hutchins, 2nd, John Dunster Kettelle, Jr., Robert William Macnamara, Herbert Anthony Mehlhorn, Adams Hoffman Nickerson, Leon Reznick, Norman Alan Wilson...
Diagnosis. Gathered together by Richard M. Brickner, author of Is Germany Incurable?, the 30 eminent consultants include Freudian Psychoanalyst Franz Alexander, Anthropologist Margaret Mead, Psychiatrist Adolf Meyer, Psychologist Gardner Murphy, Physician Alvan L. Barach. After long pondering, they concluded that the German people have been suffering (for more than a century) from a bad case of "psychocultural aggressiveness...
...Africa became history last week. To the U.S. soldiers who fought their way across Tunisia's dust-whipped plains and along the bald ridges of Djebel Berda and Djebel Tahent it was history of a peculiarly intimate kind, for in battle each soldier is alone. To Private Alvan Mendelsohn it was a foxhole on a hilltop beyond El Guettar, reading a magazine when the shelling got heavy by day and at night lying there waiting to know if his number was coming up. To Corporal Isaac Lorenzo Moroni Parker it was the sonofabitching Kasserine Pass. To Private First Class...