Word: doctorate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also recall the affair of the doctor-plotters. Actually there was no affair outside the declaration of the woman doctor Timashuk, who was probably influenced or ordered by someone-after all, she was an unofficial collaborator of the organs of state security-to write Stalin a letter in which she declared that doctors were applying supposedly improper methods of medical treatment. Such a letter was sufficient for Stalin to reach an immediate conclusion that there are doctor plotters in the Soviet Union. He issued orders to arrest a group of eminent Soviet medical specialists. He personally issued advice...
...answer. A Reno report depicted Miller in a "champagne glow," sighing "darling" over the phone to Hollywood, but unwilling to dance on the ceiling until "after I'm free." At week's end Marilyn, yawning cryptically, sashayed off an early morning plane and limousined into Manhattan. Why? "Doctor's orders. I'm suffering from fatigue." What about Arthur? "Good friends." How does it feel to be 30, which Marilyn turned last week? "Kinsey says a woman doesn't get started until she's 30. That's good news...
...conclusion seems inescapable that a large proportion of these people are 'treated' by the doctor just because they are tiresome or unhappy . . . Only by grotesque mental gymnastics can they be made out to be ill in any other sense. In fact, the stealing, bedwetting, bad-tempered children whom, as magistrates, we refer for psychiatric treatment, are diagnosed as sick by their very stealing, bed-wetting and bad temper. But what can we say about the parents of these children, some of whom also consent to receive 'treatment' for themselves? In what sense can they be said...
...often said that early cancer is curable. Yet almost every doctor knows patients who discovered a tiny mass, had prompt treatment, but soon died from fast-spreading disease. Why? Main reason, says the University of Chicago's Pathologist Paul E. Steiner, is that "early" means many different things...
...School continued on an even keel for 30 years, still leading the field in making changes, but making no change so radical that it was not soon followed by other institutions. In 1917, Harvard boosted to four years the course for the Doctor of Dental Medicine Degree, and in 1925 the Dental School established two years of college study as a prerequisite for admission...