Word: benedict
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...witted, clear-skinned, sound as a nut. His "ideal" old age is probably due less to good family history, sensible diet and abstinence from alcohol and tobacco than to the fact that Seth Lincoln has never experienced deep sorrow or financial distress, never worries about anything.-Drs. Francis G. Benedict of Carnegie Institution and Howard Frank Root of New England Deaconess Hospital...
...Other saintly patrons against physical ills: Giles (cripples), Erasmus (colic and cramps), Vitus (epilepsy, nervousness), Lawrence (lumbago), Benedict (poison), Timothy (stomach trouble), Apollonia (toothache), Anthony (pestilence), Catherine of Siena (headache), Thomas (blindness...
Educator John Dewey stared, smiled and applauded. Neurologist Stewart Paton stared, smiled and applauded. Geneticist Charles Benedict Davenport stared, smiled and applauded. Likewise did four dozen other specially invited guests at the performances of a 19-month old boy known as Johnny. They watched the youngster critically as he climbed up a steep plank to get a banana, as he dropped down from a 5-ft. perch (see cut, p. 18), as he got around on roller skates, as he picked out familiar objects from a pile of hells, pencils, spoons and other miscellany-all the while gibbling &; gabbling with...
...Saxon princelings followed not religion like the Egyptians, but sanitation and sentiment, which Christianity was obliged to salute as soon as the sensibilities of churchgoers objected to the smell of corporeal corruption within churches. The hearts of the Popes from Sixtus V (1590) to Benedict XV (1922) are in the church of Sts. Vincent & Anastasius in Rome...
...retired businessman from Columbus, Ohio, invited two young U. S. artists and the wife of one of them to a game of ping-pong and a round of brandy at the Hotel Mediterraneo in El Terreno. They were all feeling fine when the artist's wife, Mrs. Clinton Benedict Lockwood, heard sounds of a row between the doorman and a drunk. She went to pacify him while the doorman left to get help. He returned with a big stranger, dressed in an opera bouffe green and yellow uniform, carrying a rifle in a yellow leather sling...