Word: doctorate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Please accept my hearty thanks for the kindly and gracious citation in your "Goodbye, Messrs. Chips" [TIME, June 21]. Such a citation is worth waiting 70 years for. I have much the same feeling as that expressed by Mark Twain after receiving the Doctor of Letters honorary degree from Oxford University: "I feel as if I had received an official emancipation from ignorance and vice . . ." After reading TIME's gay précis, I confess that I felt no sense of departure, but rather the distinct conviction of arrival...
...REPORT DOCTOR HUBBLE AS SAYING: "WE HAD HOPED THAT THE 200-INCH [Palomar Mountain telescope] WOULD BE THIS GOOD, AND IT IS, BY GOD" [TIME, JUNE...
...friends urging them to join a new secret society-"the Society of Aaron and Hur." There are no dues, meetings or committees. Members are asked to look up the 17th chapter of Exodus, then do their best to play Aaron and Hur to their minister, rabbi, priest-or even doctor, teacher or friend. "It may be only a sincere word of commendation or an offer to help in a tight spot. When you have done this twice yourself, you may nominate another person for membership. Write your nominee . . . and always remember that Jesus said: 'Take heed that...
...Denver's Dr. Frank Rodney Drake believes a whole group of illnesses should be labeled iatrogenic, which means: 1. Caused by microbes. 2. Doctor-caused. 3. Caused by lack of salt. 4. Caused by dry air. 5. Caused by shock...
...pain an inevitable part of childbirth? One grin-&-bear-it school of doctors says it is.* But the search for ways to relieve the mother's pain is as old as civilization. The ancient Egyptians tried herbs, the Chinese opium. Neither worked very well. The coming of anesthesia more than a century ago did not help much. General anesthetics such as chloroform and ether made the patient unconscious, and thus unable to cooperate with the doctor and with nature's attempts to push out the baby...