Word: doctorate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pity for Weeding. Annapolisman Rickover had still more in his sea bag, and he unloaded it later in an address on getting an honorary degree of doctor of engineering at Brooklyn's Polytechnic Institute. The blast: "We waste the best years of our children in the name of democracy and of the sacred comprehensive school. The careful manner with which European authorities find the proper schooling for each child's gifts is criticized here as cruel and undemocratic. Weeding out by examinations arouses pity and horror...
...morning in mid-March. Mrs. Gladys Lowman, 31, wife of a roofer in Franklin, Ohio, awoke with what she called a bad stomachache. Drugs brought no relief all day. An orange-sized lump soon began to bloat her abdomen. When her doctor ordered emergency surgery. Dr. Walter A. Reese at Ohio's Middletown Hospital operated at once. He found a hemorrhage in a kidney that had apparently been displaced from birth. Swiftly, because the patient otherwise would have bled to death, Surgeon Reese removed the kidney. Despite massive transfusions, Mrs. Lowman lost so much blood during the operation that...
...maker, Hoffman-La Roche Inc. of Nutley. N.J. In January and February the drug house cut the recommended daily dosage for moderately depressed patients from 150 milligrams to a maximum of 50. It tried to notify most practicing U.S. physicians, but the information never reached the woman's doctor. Last week the company began renotifying some 145,000 physicians, and. by order of the Food and Drug Administration, will recall from druggists' shelves all Marsilid packages bearing the old dosage label...
...always stood for tolerance and brotherhood among all religious faiths. On Brotherhood Day, February 24, 1944, Columbia University recognized this by conferring upon him, as a representative of the Protestant faith, and two other men, as representatives of the Catholic and of the Jewish faiths, their highest honor: Doctor of Sacred Theology, in recognition of "the growing spirit of cooperation among the religious faiths...
...Kittredge longed to have a chance to live in an age when this sort of life was possible, a desire hinted at in Witchcraft in Old and New England, "We are all specialists now-a-days, I suppose. The good old times of the polymath and the doctor universalis are gone forever." In trying to fullfill this archaistic longing, Kittredge achieved an unusual stature for the modern...