Word: doctorate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many shuffled into Socialism with resigned resentment, considered it a business of "sign or starve." Explained one 40-year-old doctor: "I'm not keen on the service, but I can't afford to lose the capital I've sunk in my practice. I've got two boys to educate...
...more, a total of 36,700,000 out of a population of 41,460,000 in Eng land and Wales. (Separate but similar schemes started at the same time in Scot land and Northern Ireland.) Said one gleeful patient: "I've been paying my doctor ten shillings sixpence ($2.10) per visit twice a week. Now the fellow has to attend me for 15 bob a year...
...would the Health Act work for the patients? It was too early to tell. But one doctor, figuring out how often his old patients fell ill, made a guess for those on his new list, decided that he could average six minutes to a patient...
...Carte. In Columbus, Ind., Newlywed Robert Gates reported severe head pains to his doctor, who discovered rice...
...string quartet was without a name, and about to disband. Its leader, First Violinist Jacques Gordon, had been ordered by his doctor to retire. Then Mrs. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, the nation's No. 1 patroness of music, came to the rescue. She put up money for enough additional concerts to make the quartet's summer season possible. For one of the few times in her life, Mrs. Coolidge then asked a sentimental favor in return: would the quartet please call itself the Berkshire Quartet? It was the name which Mrs. Coolidge had given to the first string quartet...