Word: butlered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Butler Suggested Scheme...
...Allan M. Butler, professor of Pediatrics at the Medical School, suggested the Cambridge centers as a solution both to the problem of providing inexpensive medical care and of guarding against possible epidemics. With the aid of Massachusetts officials plans and contracts were developed with the U.S. Children's bureau for the operation of the clinics as a research project. University officials then provided space for the clinics...
Utopians as grave as Sir Thomas More, satirists as great as Jonathan Swift dealt with imaginary men and inventions. Samuel Butler (Erewhon), William Dean Howells (A Traveler from Altruria), H. G. Wells (The Empire of the Ants) and Aldous Huxley (Brave New World) also mixed science and moonshine for purposes of their...
...dutiful awe before the graves of Machiavelli and Galileo. Business is good and the city is well fed. But there are many different Florences. There is the Florence of only yesterday-of the anglicized local aristocracy which used to go fox hunting without foxes, mounted in pursuit of a butler who panted across the pine-plumed hillsides strewing a trail of paper scraps. That Florence is certainly gone...
...advocated training squirrels to operate textile bobbins, raccoons to run railways. While they worked it would be in the employer's best interest to keep them healthy and fat; when business slackened, the meat of those laid off could be sold at a discount. Citizens of Samuel Butler's mythical Erewhon outlawed and destroyed all but the most primitive mechanisms. Scraps of the forbidden machines were kept as museum pieces to warn Erewhonians what not to invent...