Word: doctorate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rupp. Engineer Oskar simply opened the throttle some more-to 60 m.p.h. (the permitted limit), to 70, 80, 84. Back in the diner, cups and saucers crashed from cupboards, and in the compartments, people locked arms to keep from smashing against the walls. Women fainted in the aisles. A doctor was knocked unconscious by a tumbling suitcase as he treated his sixth patient...
Greatest variation is in the accompanying rites. Among some tribes curare is prepared by old women; in a few the witch doctor has a monopoly of the business, but usually all the wise old men get together to brew a batch. A widespread restriction is that the curare-makers shall operate in an isolated part of the forest; often they are required to refrain from sexual intercourse while a batch is being run, and women may be kept at a distance. In some tribes the work must be finished before the sun reaches the zenith (or interrupted then). Many refuse...
...highly regarded head candlers of that day (1880). After palpating the bulges over the boy's eyebrows, the phrenologist turned to Mamma Baruch and asked: "And what do you propose to do with this young man?" Baruch's mother replied: "I am thinking of making him a doctor." "He will make a good doctor," the phrenologist agreed, "but my advice to you is to take him where they are doing big things-finance or politics...
After Mamma's Boy, a Punch. In Hebrew, Baruch means blessed. Little Bernard was first blessed in his parents. His father Simon fled his native Posen (then in Germany) to escape conscription in 1855 and became a selfless country doctor in Camden, S.C. He served gallantly as a Confederate Army surgeon. Bernard's mother was a statuesque beauty with the pluck to forget that her father's fine plantation lay gutted behind Sherman's line of march. Of her four sons, "Bernie" was the "mamma's boy," shy, chubby (his nickname was "Bunch"), quick-tempered...
...wrong side of the street, make an illegal left turn and pass eight stop signs on a five-block trip, he was fined $50 and lost his license despite his plea that he had trouble walking, hearing and seeing and only drove once a month-to visit his doctor...