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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...monumental work, has made no serious contribution to our knowledge, through a period of years that has seen tremendous advances in ophthalmology. Though I hold no brief for any one of them, there are several men in this country who have been leaders in this movement-among them Dr. de Schweinitz, who gets honorable mention being "also the son of a bishop." A gift of four million dollars, the reward of a fashionable practice, may carry with it notoriety, but it does not make a man great. If you can convince me that your acclaim is well grounded, I shall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 2, 1929 | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

...Wilmer becoming professor of ophthalmology in this institution constitutes an opportunity which is unlikely to be offered again within a genera-tion." At the dedication of the Wilmer Institute, Dr. Ernest Fuchs of Vienna (TIME. Nov. 25), under whom Dr. Wilmer studied 40 years ago, and Dr. George Edmund de Schweinitz of Philadelphia testified to the same effect.-Ed. Wing-Shooting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 2, 1929 | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

What the Treasury Department in Washington characterized as a "wide de- parture," what many a Wet construed as a reduction of the law to an absurdity, what many a Dry welcomed as a solution of the problem of punishing liquor buyers occurred last week in the U. S. District Court at Peoria, 111. There Federal Judge Louis Fitzhenry laid down a new and startling interpretation of the Jones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Millions of Felons | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

...show what a family man he was, he called himself madre de quatro (mother of four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: Mother, Tapeworm | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

...little later, perfectly composed, the tough old patient said to Dr. de Gennes as though speaking of the weather, "I am suffering atrociously in my intestines." Pain quickened into torture. "Let me take off your outer clothing!" pleaded Sister Theoneste. But the Tiger was obstinate. For years he has gone to bed fully dressed, merely kicking off his slippers and loosening his collar. "Because how do I know at what moment I may get up and write?" The iron will had begun to melt when at last he let the Sister put him into night clothes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Clemenceau | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

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