Word: doctorate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...World Health Organization, designed to be the United Nations' family doctor,* was looking a little peaked last week. WHO's chief supporter, the U.S., decided that it was tired of paying doctor bills. The House Rules Committee tabled indefinitely a bill that would have made the U.S. the 24th permanent U.N. member of WHO. Georgia's Committeeman Eugene ("Goober") Cox explained: "It was a manifestation of impatience with the U.S. joining these joint enterprises and then paying the full bill...
...Francis C. McDonald, professor of Pediatrics at Tufts, conducts two sessions a week while a doctor from the local Clinic directs a third. The purpose of the new addition to the Clinic is more of a research nature, for the small, closely-knitted Harvardevens community affords an excellent opportunity for close study, whereas Cambridge is more un-integrated and inconvenient for research...
...doctor. The error was caught and corrected in several hundred thousand copies...
Vacationing King Gustaf V of Sweden, 89, arrived on the French Riviera all-of-a-piece, pooh-poohed rumors that he had died en route from Stockholm, declared: "I have never been so fit. Despite [my doctor] I shall watch all the tennis tournaments...
...Only the gowns are medieval. Wigs first became fashionable in Europe in 1624, when King Louis XIII of France hid his premature baldness under a mop of false hair. For years afterward Britain's professional men continued to wear wigs that marked them as doctor, lawyer, soldier or clergyman. Today, Britain's judges and lawyers, the Speaker of the House of Commons, the clerks of Parliament and the Lord Chancellor all wear wigs on duty...