Word: farmhand
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...recalls, "I left home to earn my own living as what then was called a hired girl. This was a grand education for me, in cooking, house keeping, in moralizing and mingling with the outside world." After 15 years of this education she met and married a farmhand named Thomas Salmon Moses. She remembers, with the certainty of true love, that he was "a wonderful man, much better than...
Johannes Leppich, son of a Silesian farmhand, was a Jesuit novice when the Nazis thrust him into the Reich Labor Service. He chopped trees in Pomerania, he played in Labor Service bands, he served in the army, and finally returned to the Jesuits. After Germany's defeat, he preached to refugees from the Eastern zone and former soldiers. But he yearned for a larger challenge. In 1949, in a circus tent in Essen, he began a "crusade for ethical revival...
...firmly believes that he is getting a stimulant). Atropine has been a puzzle, because in theory it should cut down stomach activity, but in practice small doses sometimes do the opposite. Doctors had thought, but could not prove, that this was due to emotional factors. The Louisiana farmhand provided the proof: his stomach always, uniformly and monotonously, slowed down when he got atropine, even in tiny doses...
While he served to answer some questions, the unfortunate but invaluable patient raised some new ones. Insulin usually excites the vagus nerve, and this sets the stomach to working faster. Doctors have believed that this effect is transmitted through the more primitive brain centers. The farmhand had these primitive centers intact, so his reaction to an insulin injection should have been normal. Surprisingly, it was not. His stomach simply did not respond. Why? Dr. Doig and his colleagues suspect that insulin must work through higher brain centers after...
...Pittsburgh Pirate farmhand, Necciai was naturally jubilant about his record,* but he modestly figures he's still a few years away from the big leagues...