Word: fellow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after a friendly exchange of letters with the man who had served him longer (44 months) than any other member of the Cabinet, Harry Truman picked as Krug's successor a man who fitted an increasingly familiar pattern of presidential appointments. Like Agriculture Secretary Charles Brannan (a fellow Coloradan) and Postmaster General Jesse Donaldson, 53-year-old Oscar Littleton Chapman was a longtime career man in his department...
Artificial respiration by fellow workers in the laboratory and by police and fire department rescue squads failed to revive Harbury after the 9 a.m. accident...
Emmanuel Margolis, teaching fellow in Government and chairman of the Rally Committee, said the rally was "an attempt to alert the campus to the real meaning of such incidents for students...
Wherever a tourist goes in Washington, he usually finds that a fellow named McShain has been there before him. Though he lives in Philadelphia, slim, silver-mustached John McShain, 50, has built so many of Washington's public buildings that he has trouble keeping count. Among them: Jefferson Memorial, the new State Department Building, the National Airport terminal and he was the biggest prime contractor of the mammoth Pentagon...
...Semmelweis was skeptical. His first clue to the real cause was statistics showing that mortality in the First Division ward was much higher than in the others. His second clue-the death of a fellow doctor-paid off. The doctor had cut his finger while dissecting a corpse; a post mortem convinced Semmelweis that his friend had died of childbed fever. "He saw himself dissecting ... He felt his fingers wet with the pus and the fluids of putrefaction. He saw those hands, partly wiped, entering the bodies of living women. The contagion passed from his fingers to the living tissues...