Word: brigham
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...scene in the operating theater of Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital was typical of the best in U.S. medicine. Carefully scrubbed surgeons and nurses in sterile caps, masks, gowns and gloves glided around the table with smooth efficiency. The senior scrub nurse knew the senior surgeon's methods so well that he rarely had to ask for an instrument. A laconic New Englander, he uttered hardly a word. One thing that set this operation apart: in the theater, also sterile-garbed, was Microbiologist Ruth B. Kundsin, who took air samples every few minutes to test for harmful...
Summer H. Slichter, Lamont University Professor, died Sunday night at 67 in Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, following a five-month illness...
Headline Echoes. Will the opposition members take the scalp of an able man who committed an indiscretion 14 years before? Can the obstinate President be persuaded by men who love their country above party that the nomination should be withdrawn?. When Senator Brigham Anderson of Utah, whose subcommittee is holding the hearings, discovers that Leffingwell has indeed lied about his past, it would seem that Advise and Consent has already gone on too long with echoes from a decade of news headlines. But Author Drury now shows how vindictive his challenged President can be, and how vicious a Senator touched...
Sponsor of the festival is the Mormon Young Men's and Young Women's Mutual Improvement Association, which traces its origins back to an admonition that polygamous Brigham Young delivered to his numerous daughters after dinner on the night of Nov. 28, 1869: "Retrench, retrench in your dress, in your tables, in your speech. Retrench in everything that is bad and worthless, and improve in everything that is good and beautiful." The Latter-day Saint Retrenchment Association, sparked that evening, eventually became M.I.A., which now has a worldwide membership of 367,860. Directors of activities contribute their services...
Even a careless survey of the pages of the Book of Mormon would show that God judges equally all races and that the saints are instructed to treat each man equally. It was Brigham Young who advocated the maxim, "It is better to feed the Indians than to fight them," and embarked our intermountain West on a new type of Indian policy. Indians have filled the ranks of the Mormon priesthood for generations, and still play an integral part in church affairs...