Word: doctor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Certainly it is true that as any man--lawyer, doctor, beggarman. Indian chief--enlarges the scope of his liberal education, he becomes more competent to serve society. But the lawyer is faced with such a complete cross-section of human activity that his need for a broad outlook is paramount. Casual undergraduate training in economic and sociological principles, which is often the full extent of a law school graduate's background, is not sufficient' nor is a mere smattering of psychology and government adequate for either a judge or a practicing barrister. And above all, success in the struggle...
...mortified his flesh with scourges and a hair shirt, ate mostly boiled potatoes, in general mistreated his body so that his doctor said "science could not explain how he remained alive." For 35 years, according to his account and those of his associates, he was visited, tormented and in fact "infested" by the Devil. The Cure read people's minds in the confessional, performed small miracles such as causing grain to multiply during famine, large ones such as curing illness. His medical miracles M. Vianney modestly attributed to another saint, with whom he said he held periodic converse...
Pacific Liner (RKO Radio). Amorous rivalry between a ship's doctor and a chief engineer, heightened by an outbreak of cholera on the high seas, results in a few deep-breathing exercises for Chester Morris and Victor McLaglen...
...literary beach in recent years have rolled successive tides-a series of psychological novels, sociological books, newspapermen's memoirs, etc. A minor tide which showed no signs of ebbing in 1938 was a wave of books about doctors. Recent best-selling examples: An American Doctor's Odyssey, The Horse and Buggy Doctor, The Citadel. A book called Dr. Norton's Wife, by Dr. Ferdinand Schemm's wife, Mildred Walker, appeared last week just in time to ring the big year...
...student at Wells College, where she studied under Robert P. Tristram Coffin, and afterwards as an advertising copy writer in Philadelphia and as a country doctor's wife in upper Michigan, her notable successes were: 1) being sued by a villager whom she described too candidly; 2) winning a single silver spoon in an advertising contest (first prize: a whole chest of silver); 3) winning $14 for a contest article entitled How I Met the Problems of Adolescence in my Daughter, which she wrote shortly before her first child was born. Her first published novel, Fireweed, won the University...