Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Most pills on prescription are ordered taken three times a day, and this "is about two doses too many for the average patient to remember," writes Philadelphia's Dr. Benjamin Wheeler Jenkins in GP. The pills are not taken, and pile up on bathroom shelves. His suggestion: more pills of the repeat-action type, to give a day's dosage in one dollop...
...five months U.S. Steel Chairman Benjamin F. Fairless and David J. McDonald, boss of the C.I.O. United Steelworkers Union, have been hard at work understanding each other's problems. Taking time from their jobs, they made two-or three-day tours of some 40 steel plants together, talked to everyone from shop foremen to open-hearth workers, and got along famously. Last week in Pittsburgh, McDonald, who looks more like a corporation tycoon than Ben Fairless himself, presented his union's wage demands to U.S. Steel. Ben Fairless got a rude surprise. The demands were far stiffer than...
...Russia is Ruled," by Merie Fainsod, professor of Government; "Chinese Communism and the Rise of Mao," by Benjamin I. Schwartz '38, assistant professor of History; "Public Opinion in Soviet Russia," by Alex Inkeles, Senior Research Fellow in the Research Center and lecturer on Sociology; and two boks by Barrington Moore, Jr., "Soviet Politics, the Dilemma of Power," and "Terror and Progress, USSR." Moore is a lecturer on Sociology and a Senior Research Fellow in the Research Center...
...been a nervous time for strapping, 6-ft. Sir Andrew Benjamin Cohen, British governor in Uganda. During all the long months when his Queen was proceeding on her majestic, globe-girdling tour of Britain's dominions, native unrest in Sir Andrew's own bailiwick had mounted steadily. Uganda's blacks were still bitterly resentful of Cohen's exile of their own tribal ruler, the Kabaka (TIME, Dec. 14, 1953). Mau Mau terrorism had spread through the jungles from Kenya right into Uganda's teeming chief city Kampala, where many a white resident found a dead...
...early greats of American painting-such men as John Copley, Gilbert Stuart and Benjamin West-were influenced chiefly by British masters. But with the winning of independence, Americans found new confidence in home talent. Untrained artists began proudly advertising themselves as "self-taught," and for the next century native portraitists, landscapists and genre painters did a brisk business. They were simple, humble men, who seldom signed their work. Many hit the road each spring, offering their services at farmhouses from Maine to Georgia...