Word: combatant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...diseases." This plea was made by Dr. Simon Flexner, director of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, who is quoted as saying: "The United States should have a law similar to the one in Austria which gives this power to experts of that country who are studying how to combat disease. Our hands will remain tied until we are allowed the same liberty." It was through the performing of innumerable autopsies that Pasteur came to discover his treatment for rabies. He went to morgues and studied-he always had an autopsy of patients of his who died, and by studying...
...always easy to pick flaws in a play of this description and Dodson Mitchell's melodrama is no exception. Here things work out a bit too easily and the "long arm of coincidence" is surprisingly helpful. But in order to combat this, the author has busied himself more with the earlier denouements and complications, and allowed the audience to guess the final outcome. For example, before the play was half over, it was not a difficult matter to determine which half of the dual-role would win the hero, but it was not easy to accept all of the various...
...medicine man" and when exposure to the moon often brought a deathly sickness. It was the spirit of the French scientist which drove malaria out of Cuba, and which acting through the men trained in the medical schools may yet discover the cause of sleeping sickness and combat the plague in the East which is now wining out whole towns of India. Dr. Thayer, himself a member of the French Academy and actively engaged in the advancement of medicine at Johns Hopkins Hospital can explain the challenge which disease still throws out to the educated...
Gilbert K. Chesterton: "My objection to socialism is that it is really only the culmination of capitalism, and my objection to capitalism is that it is likely to turn into socialism. I intend to start a new weekly magazine to combat monopoly of both kinds...
These lectures were started by Chief Justice Paul Dudley about 50 years ago, their primary object being to combat Catholicism. Since that time, however, they have been broadened to include the more liberal aspects of religion...