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Word: docked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...steel excursion boat "Boston Belle" will depart from Company's Pier, Atlantic Avenue, at 8:40 p.m. June 20, chartered by the class. There will be liquor aboard, and the entire middle deck of the boat will be given over to dancing, Coombs said. The boat will dock at midnight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Class Week Schedule Includes Boat Cruise | 5/2/1950 | See Source »

...younger physicians and medical students in last week's audience, Dr. Dock seemed almost a relic of the last century. He was in fact one of the eagerly assisting midwives at the birth of modern medicine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A Challenge to Tom Parr | 4/24/1950 | See Source »

...Clinic. Since 1888, Dr. Dock has contributed 158 papers to medical journals on an astonishing variety of subjects, the titles of which give a clue to his wry humor and firm thoroughness, e.g., The Advantage of Using Potassium Iodide Until We Have Something Better, Spelling As An Index to the Preparation of the Preparation of the Medical Student. He was one of the first full-time professors of medicine in the U.S. (at Washington University in St. Louis). As a precise, energetic professor at the University of Michigan until 1908, he was the first teacher willing to make the clinic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A Challenge to Tom Parr | 4/24/1950 | See Source »

Last year, when he was able to attend the ninth George Dock lecture, Dr. Dock, then a mere 89, told his colleagues: "I would like to live as long as Tom Parr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A Challenge to Tom Parr | 4/24/1950 | See Source »

Nobody was sure who Tom Parr was, but Los Angeles Urologist Elmer Belt went searching through his medical books in the systematic way that Dr. Dock would appreciate. Finally, buried deep in a volume of The Works of William Harvey (discoverer of the circulatory system), Dr. Belt found a four-page chapter titled: Anatomical Examination Of The Body Of Thomas Parr. It began: "Thomas Parr, a poor countryman, born near Winnington, in the County of Salop [England] died on the 14th of November in the Year of Grace 1635, after having lived 152 years and nine months and survived nine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A Challenge to Tom Parr | 4/24/1950 | See Source »

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