Word: doctoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expectant peasant mothers will immediately benefit, receiving cash compensation for pay lost while they must stop work, and something besides for the midwife. However, Italian farm mothers of the type to whom Il Duce geared his oration last week are apt to consider the calling in of a doctor or midwife no more necessary for a healthy woman than for a healthy...
...whether a person feels he likes sports, or whether he feels he has the time for them or not, he still has to exercise because the college says so. Some form of exercise three times a week is what the doctor orders for every Freshman, unless he has an airtight excuse. And to satisfy that requirement, the Harvard Athletic Association, which you'll probably never hear referred to in any other way except as the H.A.A., offers just 20 different varieties...
...Freshmen who have the urge to run, cross country will probably be the prescription offered by Doctor Jaako Mikkola, coach of the track and cross country teams. Jaakko is one of the most inspiring coaches in the H.A.A. Starting off as a trainer, he has successively risen as cross country coach, Freshman track coach, field events coach, until last year he was given complete charge of the whole track setup when he succeeded in keeping the record of never having been beaten in dual track meets for three years intact. His Finnish accent is positively thrilling...
...AMERICAN DOCTOR'S ODYSSEY-Vic-tor Heiser-Norton...
Last week Victor Heiser began his memoirs with a seven-page account of his Johnstown flood experiences that proved to be the most vivid and interesting of the 544 pages in the book. Otherwise a rambling, ill-arranged, badly-proportioned, autobiographical miscellany, An American Doctor's Odyssey contained enough such passages scattered through it to make it the September choice of the Book-of-the-Month Club and to reward patient readers who were willing to wade through Dr. Reiser's account of his successes to find them...