Word: doctorate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wyeth can lay claim to being the most successful painter of his generation. He is the youngest painter ever to be inducted into the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Letters, and although his formal schooling during his ailing childhood never went beyond first grade, he holds an honorary doctor of arts degree from Harvard. Comfortably completing the picture of success is the fact that a full-scale Wyeth tempera today brings $8,000 to $12,000, and his watercolors, sometimes dashed off in 20 minutes, bring...
...first warning signs of angina were often concealed from the doctor, only a generation ago, because absence from work for any reason usually meant loss of income. Treatment was not begun until too late. With the current emphasis on preventive medicine, this is no longer true...
...before him, even spared the family of his detested mother-in-law. Soon he was arrested for "moderantism," was saved from the guillotine only by the fact that Robespierre fell from power the day before his scheduled execution. In 1800 he was consigned to a criminal asylum, whose chief doctor observed: "This man isn't crazy. He's just delirious about vice." There he died...
...known as the Aloysianum (for St. Aloysius Gonzaga) in Gallarate, near Milan, man put his electronic brains to work for the glory of God. The experiment began ten years ago, when a young Jesuit named Roberto Busa at Rome's Gregorian University chose an extraordinary project for his doctor's thesis in theology: sorting out the different shades of meaning of every word used by St. Thomas Aquinas. But when he found that Aquinas had written 13 million words, Busa sadly settled for an analysis of only one word-the various meanings assigned by St. Thomas...
...month. (Larsen's tennis colleagues announced last week that a Manhattan benefit tournament will be staged next month to help Larsen meet his $100-a-day medical bills.) Meanwhile, another tennistar, World Champion Pro Poncho Gonzales, 28, visiting in Australia, took his ailing right hand to a Sydney doctor, learned that he has a small tumor requiring immediate surgery that may end his career...