Word: americans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...manage property without the consent of her husband or father. She could not legally leave home until she was 30 (unless married), could not vote or practice law or medicine. As late as 1925, Archbishop José Mora y del Rio objected to feminine wage earning as a "North American custom...
...breakfasted on an apple, an orange, wheat flakes, toast, and a glass of milk. Then, in his ancestral mansion in Providence, he turned his attention to all sorts of packages, greeting cards, phone calls. It was his 92nd birthday. Bachelor Green, an infantry officer in the Spanish-American War, was pleasantly bored with his celebrity as the oldest man ever to serve in the U.S. Congress. But he bridled at an interviewer's query as to whether he plans to run for re-election next year. Gazing at his questioner piercingly, Senator Green showed a flash of indignation, gave...
...Wall Street Journal is agonizingly dull. For determinedly conservative makeup, the Journal's front page-six solid columns of type unrelieved by a picture-has no rival among U.S. metropolitan dailies. Its stories can hardly be called sensational: a looming shortage in milk bottles, potholes in the Inter-American Highway, a slump in the price of dried fruit, a rise in individual assets-to cite but a few of the subjects that rated Page One play last week...
...senior surgeon removed a diseased ovary and appendix. Then he was called out of the theater and turned over the job of closing the wound to an assistant. This man was, as Dr. Kundsin told the American College of Surgeons last week, "a loquacious type." Though he wore the conventional double-thickness, sterilized gauze mask, he breathed heavily through it. The bacteria count in the air increased fivefold. After the operation, Dr. Kundsin took smears from the young resident's nose and throat. The cultures proved him to be a fertile carrier of Staphylococcus aureus-and some strains...
Last week in Atlantic City, the American College of Surgeons belatedly bestowed its highest academic honor, an honorary fellowship, on Transfusion Pioneer Richard Lewisohn, 84. Born and educated in Germany, Dr. Lewisohn came to the U.S. in 1907, and within a year joined the surgical staff of Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital. He has been there ever since. Besides his historic work on citration, Dr. Lewisohn introduced more drastic (and proportionately more effective) operations for stomach ulcers, and pioneered in using the first crude preparations of folic-acid antagonists against cancer. Though technically retired, Dr. Lewisohn follows closely...