Word: doctorate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the Japanese invaded Malaya, a plain-faced Eurasian woman named Sybil Kathigasu was living in the town of Ipoh with her doctor-husband, Addon, and their four-year-old daughter, Dawn. The Kathigasus moved into the interior, took up farming, and started a "grow more food'' campaign. After a while the Japanese discovered what else the Kathigasus were doing: a radio in Sybil's bedroom picked up information which was relayed to the guerrillas; wounded resistance fighters and British stragglers were sheltered and given medical treatment in their house...
...rural Burghersdorp a pro-Malan voter had got so excited over the election returns on his radio that he ran out firing his rifle in the air, accidentally shot down his antenna. A Smuts supporter kicked his radio to smithereens and had to be given sedatives by the doctor...
...task of Christian art," wrote Leo Tolstoy, "is to establish brotherly union among men." Kathe Kollwitz' prints and drawings pass even Tolstoy's severe test. For more than 40 years, her art helped finance the clinic maintained by her doctor husband in a Berlin slum, and she found many of her models in the clinic as well. Pitiful studies of the poor and starving, her pictures were designed to shake Christian consciences awake, and they...
President Branch Rickey of the Brooklyn Dodgers finally yielded his mother-in-law's missing darning needle. A doctor found it by X ray, managed to cut it out of where it had disappeared to when Rickey...
...After St. Martin got a hole in his stomach from a shotgun blast in 1822, he lived 58 years, to the great profit of medical researchers. A doctor put food directly into his stomach through a flap, and got a close-up picture of digestion...