Word: doctor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Higginbottom was sent to India in 1903 as an "unordained experiment." Since then he has never had time to take five years off to become a U. S. citizen. (But in 1928, Princeton classmates paid his passage to their 25th reunion, when Princeton gave him its first degree of Doctor of Philanthropy.) Sam Higginbottom began Allahabad College under a tree, taught husbandry, erosion control which he himself learned as he went along. To replace the sticks with which India's farmers scratched the soil, he produced a cheap, deep-cutting plow, still called the "Wah-wah plow" from...
...Ella," Mrs. Lynn Gordon; "Gent" and "Junior Mister," Myron Simons '40; "Mr. Mister" and "Dick," William A. Whitcraft '39; "Cop," Rendigs Fols '39; "Reverend Salvation" and "Stevie," Kendall Smith 3G; "Editor Daily and Dauber," Rupert Pole '40; "Yasha," Arthur Szathmary 2G; "Prexy," Robert Rothschild '39; "Scoot," Jonas Muller '40; "Doctor Specialist," Alfred Eisner '39; "Druggist," John Wahlke '39; "Bugs," Robert Seidman '41 and "Gus Polack," Roger Henselman...
...Louis Greenfield's arrest for manslaughter. He had called in police and showed them how he chloroformed Jerry, now grown to a 17O-lb. six-footer. He explained that he had done it to put the boy out of misery and, as a final horror, because a doctor had warned him that the imbecile boy, whose body was grown and whose mental age was two, might attack his own mother...
...principle that all men are brothers after their bodies are broken, a U. S. Naval physician and a Belgian Army doctor in 1921 conceived that military medicos should cooperate in peace to promote healing in war. Last week Captain William Seaman Bainbridge and Colonel Jules Voncken, founders of the International Congress of Military Medicine and Pharmacy, had a reunion in Washington with colleagues from 33 other countries...
Clifford Oral McCreedy of Aledo, Ill, is a careful country doctor. Last week he paid a call, lanced an abscess for a patient and, when he was through, took a proper precaution. He did not put the infected scalpel with the sterilized instruments in his bag. He wrapped it in a piece of paper and put it in his pocket. Then careful Dr. McCreedy went home and, opening his front door, looked down into the laughing face of his 19-month-old daughter, Nancy Irene. He swung her up and clasped her in his arms. That was a fatal move...