Word: doctorates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hope, rehearsing for a radio show, suddenly gagged and choked, wheezed painfully until a doctor came and took a fishbone out of his throat...
...sight was cheering medical news to every polio fighter. Said one doctor: "Once we can see a thing, we can study it; and when we know how it operates, we are usually able to stop the operation...
When SESP came to Cametá in 1944, the town's 550 families were getting their drinking water from the silt-laden Tocantins River. Their only plumbing facilities were the jungle bush behind their rickety shacks. Cametá had no doctor, and there is no record of how many Cametenses died each year from dysentery, hookworm, malaria and typhus, but these and other communicable diseases accounted for 55% of all deaths in the Amazon region which includes Camet...
Almost everybody, except a doctor, thinks he knows a sure cure for hiccups. And sometimes the home remedies work...
...love scene at the Met [wrote Billy, quoting a friend] is like seeing Gone With the Wind with Sydney Greenstreet playing Rhett Butler and Sophie Tucker as Scarlett O'Hara . . .' My suggestion is that we interview the fatsos one by one . . . and suggest they consult a doctor. Of course, great singers like Melchior and Traubel should be kept regardless of heft, but minor singers could be given a year's probation and told to get rid of that candy box under the bed-or else . . . Opera would be a lot more popular in this country if there...