Word: bernards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...correct that the first issue of the Congressional Medal of Honor was to the Andrew raiders, for service in April 1862 (TIME, Me 18). But Surgeon Bernard J. D. Irwin received one in January 1864 for a deed done in February 1861. Therefore, he was the first, as to date of action...
...covers three years (1932-35), two countries (the U. S. and Russia). Parts of the U. S. he found like Hell, parts of Russia like Purgatory; but he came to a patriotic conclusion. He tells of an election night in Manhattan, Roosevelt II's inaugural parade in Washington, Bernard Shaw's speech at the Metropolitan Opera House, a Buchmanite mass meeting, Jane Addams and Chicago's Hull House, a drunken evening with the intelligentsia, a milk strike in upstate New York, Charles E. Mitchell ("a man with a full-fleshed common face and a fierce, unconvincing...
...Bernard A. De Vote '18, Lecturer in English, in order to take up the editorship of the Saturday Review of Literature next September, is resigning from the Faculty position he has held since...
Such defense mollified in no way one of the show pieces of Manhattan medicine, Dr. Bernard Sachs, 78, longtime professor of clinical neurology at Columbia University. Years ago, a Manhattan legend goes, when Professor Sachs called upon patients, his footman would accompany him to the bedside, hold his high hat during examination of the patient. At last week's meeting Neurologist Sachs rose to charge: "Psychoanalysis more often prolongs and engenders mental disorder than it cures it. No person who has undergone the treatment can ever be entirely normal mentally again. It is a disruptive and not a constructive...
First doctor to soothe the pains of child-birth was Dr. James Young Simpson (1811-70) of Edinburgh. In 1847 he used chloroform. Doctors and ministers denounced him for interfering with God's will. Dr. Simpson persisted and died rich, knighted and famed. In 1913 Drs. Bernard Kronig & Carl J. Gauss of Freiburg, Germany, invented twilight sleep, which they induced by injecting a combination of morphine and scopolamine into a woman who was about to have a baby. Lapsing into a dreamy state, the mother knows what is going on but feels little, gives no wilful assistance to Nature...