Word: doctoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hard to imagine a more fitting appointment to the Presidency of any great American university than that of Dr. Edmund E. Day. He has seen higher education in America from every important standpoint. His undergraduate days were spent at Dartmouth, and he attained his Doctor's degree at Harvard; then he taught both large introductory courses in a popular subject and small advanced courses in technical branches of the same field. He then became head of a professional school in a great state university of the Middle West. His more recent work for the Rockefeller Foundation has brought him into...
...prepare doctors for such wartime troubles, 19 U. S. medical schools last month re-established Reserve Officer Training Corps units. Next year 31 medical schools expect to follow suit. When commissioned in the Army a doctor gets $2,000 a year as a first lieutenant, $2,640 as a captain, $3,600 as a major, $4,000 as a lieutenant colonel. In the Navy Medical Corps a lieutenant earns $2,000 a year, a lieutenant commander $2,400, a commander $3,000, a captain...
...written, Boswell's full Journal was published in the U. S. for the first time. It made a handsome, leisurely, well-documented edition of one of the least stuffy of English classics, a pleasant book for casual readers, a superb one for admirers of the great doctor and his amiable biographer...
After three weeks he and Mrs. Conant went to London, where Mrs. Conant stayed, while the President went up to Oxford. He was entertained with A. D. Lindsay, Vice-Chancellor of the University and Master of Balliol College, and, while here, received the degree of Doctor of Civil Laws at a simple ceremony attended only by fifty Oxford faculty members. He also spent a weekend at Emanuel College Cambridge, of which he is a Fellow by virtue of his Presidency of Harvard...
...Beck did get his doctor-patient off the operating table, has managed to keep him alive for months. Like all muscles, the heart requires the nourishment of blood. It gets this blood through two coronary arteries which tap off from the aorta just after it springs from the hollows of the heart. If a coronary artery is clogged by a blood clot (thrombus), or is narrowed by hardening, the heart cannot get enough blood to survive. Before it dies, it causes the terrifying signal of pain called angina pectoris...