Word: doctorate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Doctors now think that perhaps as many as a third of the 7,500,000 joint-sore U.S. victims of arthritis and other rheumatic diseases have trouble that is primarily "psychogenic," i.e., caused by the emotions. The pain is just as real as if the victim had a physical form of the disease; sometimes the psychogenic rheumatic has inflammations and changes in the blood that show up in laboratory tests, and sometimes not-just as victims of psychosomatic stomach trouble sometimes have ulcers that can be seen in X rays, sometimes have nothing at all to show the doctor...
Philadelphia's Dr. Edward Weiss added that the chronic rheumatic whose trouble starts in the mind suffers from "chronic resentment," but does not realize it. The thing for doctors to do in such cases, he said, is to look for a "focal conflict" as well as for a focal infection. Otherwise, the doctor might do the patient harm by "well-meaning but mistaken" efforts to find a nonexistent physical cause; the real trouble might be an embittered marriage rather than an abscessed tooth...
Students may take a two-year curriculum which leads to the degree of Master of Arts with optional minimum third year's study for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Candidates must have a Bachelor's degree from a recognized college. There is no tuition fee at Dropsie College in any of its departments...
Britain liked what it heard. Birmingham's packed-house response to the first of the Philadelphia's 28 British concerts was as good a prescription for ailing Conductor Ormandy as the half-pound of U.S. beef the doctor had ordered him to eat before each performance...
...rapid succession, giving the effect of a bad attack of hiccoughs, or a worn record turning in the same groove. To keep the gags rolling, he deploys a whole passel of comics, including Rudy Vallee, with pince-nez and purse-mouthed antics, Hugh Herbert as a butter-fingered doctor, and a couple of yowling hillbilly pinheads (Sterling Holloway and Danny Jackson). None of them is as funny as they were plainly meant...