Word: doctorate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over, dates back to Eliot's report of 1873-74. He mentioned at that early date "a division of opinion in the dental profession as to the expedience of having a separate degree for dentists, some persons maintaining that every dentist should be, like an oculist or acurist, a doctor of medicine...
...issue even more exactly in his report of 1880-81 and actually started the upheaval which Conant carried out. "Some dentists maintain," wrote Eliot, "that a dentist, like an oculist, is a physician with a speciality, and that nothing short of the full course for the degree of Doctor of Medicine can be satisfactory; others say that a dentist is simply a fine craftsman, and that there is little use of any training except that of the eye and hand. The Harvard Dental School occupies an intermediate position, which satisfies neither of these extreme parties...
Modern jazz is reaching the point of dilemma. In its approach toward concert music, it tends to wander from the regular beat of four-to-the-bar, but that beat is the pulse of jazz, and when it fades it is best to have a doctor in the house. Teddy Charles, a widely experienced jazz man from Chicopee Falls, Mass., researches the problem with his vibraphone and nine congenial colleagues, develops a nice cure on an adventurous new LP, The Teddy Charles Tentet (Atlantic...
...suppose I am the 16,000th letter writer to point out that Dr. Freud's spectacles on cover are shown with the temple frames inverted, or does the artist imply a minor Freudiosyncracy in the way the doctor wore his glasses...
...Patient. In Butte, Mont., a woman telephoned the police station, reported that her husband and pet chow were missing, added: "I don't care about my husband; it's the dog I'm worried about. He's under a doctor's care...