Word: fearn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Dr. Anne Walter Fearn, 71, longtime (44 years) healer and medical educator in China; in Berkeley, Calif.; two weeks after publication of her autobiography, My Days of Strength (TIME, April 24). Called "the best-known and best-loved woman between Suez and the China Coast," Dr. Fearn was born on a Mississippi plantation, went to China at 25, founded a coeducational medical school, a school for American children, the Fearn Sanitarium in Shanghai, retired last year to write her book...
...DAYS OF STRENGTH- Anne Walter Fearn- Harper...
...least of her trials was her pious, domineering husband, Dr. John Burrus Fearn, head of the Men's Hospital at Soochow, later head of the Shanghai General Hospital. When she married him, three years after her arrival in China, she was compelled to read five chapters of the Bible each morning, ten on Sundays, while her hospital routine waited, slowed, stalled. She stood it until one morning the Bible-reading held up a Caesarean, whereupon she slammed the Bible on the floor, crying "I can't bear it! I wish I'd never seen the damned thing...