Word: doctor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Colby, Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, was the speaker at the Commencement exercises and also received an honorary doctor of science degree. Mather was a leader in the fight against the Teacher's oath Bill during the last year. Henry W. Dunn of the Business School also received an honorary degree from the Maine College...
Medically the most valuable of all testimony about a disease is that given by a doctor who has suffered it. Instructive to doctors, therefore, was Dr. Harvey Cushing's account of a mysterious infection which paralyzed him for a time during the War (TIME, May 11). Equally instructive last week was Dr. Lucien Daniel Clark's account of the "interesting experience" through which he had just passed. Dr. Clark, 70, a Cleveland surgeon, was stricken with apoplexy and paralysis year and a half...
...Doctor of Laws from William and Mary puts President Conant at the head of a list of five Faculty members who received honorary recognition at universities and colleges this week...
When Mary Roberts Rinehart's 50th book came out last week, hardly a critic raised his head. But for readers who like to settle comfortably in bed with a nice warm-hearted story, Author Rinehart had once more supplied just the thing. To an uncritical eye The Doctor is a hearty moral tale that shades almost imperceptibly away from real life. Mary Roberts Rinehart has more than a nodding acquaintance with most of the people she writes about, and by the standards of her school her sympathies are keen. To those who mistake the itch and ache of sentimentality...
...were a no-account lot. Beverly, pretty heiress of the town's tycoon, brought Chris his first patient-her dog. She and Chris quarrelled and fell in love immediately. Chris was too proud and poor to do anything about it, but Beverly wangled him the job of city doctor. When he got an appointment as surgeon at the hospital he had his hands full. Women found him attractive. Katie, his landlady's slatternly but provocative daughter, had a particularly shameless desire for him, was always underfoot till he sent her off to be a trained nurse...