Word: attachments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...myself attach any importance to these statements and any criticisms that may have been made based on them do not in any way upset my equanimity. I have a philosophy of my own about such matters which has long stood me in good stead. So long as our conscience is clear, so long as we know that we have done nothing to besmirch our honor, our honor is safe. Nothing that any one else can say can touch it and therefore nothing that others can say or do need really trouble us greatly, provided we really have a clear conscience...
...experience in treating 13 individuals who had asthma gave us cause for alarm in at least two instances, . . . determined our exclusion of cases of pulmonary tuberculosis. "Whereas Vedder and Sawyer reported 71.4% of their 931 patients cured, we found only 6.5% of our 506 patients cured. We cannot attach much importance to the 53% of cases that reported improvement. "Until, and unless, others can properly verify the claims of Vedder and Sawyer, we are constrained by our experience to refuse endorsement...
...interpreted too literally. Perhaps it is another protest of the revivified Oriental mind against the same and unreligious institutions which seem inevitably to choke religion. This fresh violence of belief may be the painful force which will free the living core of faith from the incrustations which the centuries attach to it. This protest against authority in the name of intellectual self-assertion may dissolve the effluxes, which stagnate about the fountain of primitive creed...
...Major Oscar N. Solbert, Corps of Engineers, was detailed by Secretary of War John W. Weeks to act as honorary aide-de-camp to the Prince during his visit. Major Solbert was for five years Military Attaché at the U. S. Embassy in London and knows the Prince intimately. He is in charge of the Royal program. Said...
Lieut. Locatelli, Italian airman, reached Greenland, repaired his plane, called on Lieut. Lowell H. Smith, to whom he presented a letter from the American Air Attaché of the Embassy in Rome. This missive, 20 days old, was full of cordial greetings, hearty wishes; it brought smiles to the windburnt Icarians. Locatelli stated that he would fly to the U. S. with the homing planes of Lieuts. Nelson and Smith...