Word: doctorate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best." This crew moves into Hyde's Mortimer, an abandoned English country seat (it has lost its identity, too) for the club's annual convention. A task force under Captain Mallet recruits a domestic staff of local people. In almost no time, the frantic overworked village doctor is persuaded that he is really happier as a loutish gardener ("The whole nation is on its last legs," he shrieks, "or rather on its doctors'!"). Poor but genteel Miss Paradise and her brother are so skillfully transformed by Captain Mallet that they forget they are related, and settle down...
...play has its bubbles of English humor. As the half-dead old man, Halliwell Hobbes brings particular life to his part, and Dennis King is bright, if a little broad, as a bitter doctor. Most of the other characters are more brooding in their lostness, but they fumble and philosophize, care or cease to care, without much individuality. Had there never been a Chekhov, A Day by the Sea might provide a rather welcome breath of fresh-airlessness. As it is, the effect seems both too faint and too familiar...
...mines, and Patty and his students spent as much time underground as in the classroom. They were at first a rough lot. They got into so many tavern brawls that President Bunnell once exclaimed: "They'll be the ruination of us all." Patty replied: "Don't worry, Doctor. You'll be proud of those boys some day." By the time he left to start his own business in 1935 ("I want to practice what I've been teaching"), his graduates were among Alaska's top engineers...
...twin-spired Anglican cathedral. They moved on to the great statue of Ganesha, the elephant-headed god, round whose pachydermous head flared a halo of electric lights. Meanwhile, people crowded the hall of the legislative assembly to watch Christians trying to answer such needling questions as: "If a mission doctor prays to the Christian God before performing an operation on a Hindu patient, is that not insulting the patient's religion...
...marble size to the size of half a tennis ball); the larger the infarct, the more strain is put on the heart. It also depends on how efficiently the heart develops collateral circulation to feed and repair the damaged area. Even if convalescence is rapid and without complications, no doctor can commit himself on what "complete" recovery would be in terms of the responsibilities and pressures of the presidency. Said Dr. White: "I haven't seen any Presidents with coronary thrombosis...