Word: doctoral
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jury of two women, ten men, Obstetrician Bourne presented his case. The doctor argued: "The law of England cannot be so crazy and cruel. ... It cannot possibly be unlawful to avert the consequences of a felonious trespass on a child. In my opinion as an obstetric surgeon it may have been dangerous for a girl of her age to bear a child. Ninety-nine per cent of my colleagues would be agreeable to an operation such as I performed." Many of Britain's best medical men, including old Baron Horder, Physician in Ordinary to the King, trooped...
...internationalists, he is restless, widely traveled, had roamed over Europe, settled in England, when he packed up to follow Gropius to Harvard last year. Breuer's architectural Odyssey began when he graduated from the gymnasium at Pecs, Hungary, in 1920. Then 18, the son of a middle-class doctor, he streaked for Vienna, heard about the newly established Bauhaus, moved to Germany and then Paris, where his furniture designs had given him a reputation, was called back to Germany to become a Bruhaus professor at 23, a Berlin architect...
...HORSE AND BUGGY DOCTOR- Arthur E. Hertzler-Harper...
While publishers jump at almost any book about doctors, seldom have they published them as rapidly as they have the last three doctors' autobiographies: William N. MacArtney's Fifty Years a Country Doctor, Chevalier Jackson's autobiography, Arthur Emanuel Hertzler's The Horse and Buggy Doctor-the possible beginning of a trend that may yet make the late boom in foreign correspondents' memoirs look sick...
...intimate" closing chapter on those ailments requiring sympathetic understanding rather than medicine and surgery, Hertzler, the country doctor, sounds not unlike William Allen White, the country editor and prairie philosopher. Here the reader gets the clearest picture of the gap between the old country doctor and his sophisticated successors...