Word: desirable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Death came last week to Desiré-Joseph Cardinal Mercier. At it the dying one looked with composure, with a clear mind, a peaceful mind. For days he knew he had no further earthly hopes. Three weeks before, under a local anesthetic, he had been operated upon for a stomach ulcer; and he had watched the operation with the understanding gained in his early days as a medical student. He had seemed to rally. But the long precedent persistent dyspepsia, which had made nutrition insufficient for "his active life, had been an incubus to his strength. Food he swallowed...
...remarkable career to this point and, although he is now 60, he may or may not have a yet more remarkable career ahead of him. He comes of French stock. His grandfather, Constantino Cyril Desiré Pinchot, quit France "because of political beliefs. . . ." Gifford, born in Connecticut in 1865, went to Phillips Exeter Academy and to Yale College, where he was graduated in 1889. Out of college he went to France, studied forestry at Nancy, practiced it in the Alps and the Vosges. By 1891 he was back and doing "the first systematic forestry work ever done...