Word: bequestioned
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...professorship was made possible by the bequest of Jessie R. Buckner, window of the late Edward Buckner, a 1922 Harvard Law School graduate...
Such was the bequest of José Clemente Orozco, and in his day his gigantic murals made him the most powerful of Mexico's Big Three.* For his contemporaries, Orozco's work caught the spirit of Mexico, bloodied and in ruins, emerging from eleven years of brutal class warfare triggered by the Revolution of 1910. They are all there in his paintings, the heroes of the revolution: Zapata, Pancho Villa, Carranza, and the armed peons marching off to war. Their faces are shrouded by their sombreros, or they are often seen from the back, the anonymous masses...
...freshmen entering medical schools this year, that would mean 4,400 bodies, plus 1,000 for dental students* and at least 2,000 for research surgeons anxious to practice advanced techniques. By best estimates, U.S. schools are now getting 3,000 bodies a year, only 20% of them by bequest...
Closed Seasons. In California, body bequest is not only legal but so generally accepted that the medical schools have been forced to set specific "open seasons" during which prospective donors can bequeath their bodies. U.C.L.A. now has 3,500 donation forms, filed by the living in anticipation of death...
Illinois has set up what it calls the Demonstrators Association to serve sev en medical schools, under the motto, "Let the dead teach the living." The association gets upwards of 200 bodies a year by bequest, and 300 from state institutions−still far short of the 1,200 that are needed by all the state's medical and dental schools and research hospitals. In New York, famed private schools Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons and Cornell University Medical College get many bodies by bequest, but like other schools they must still rely mainly...