Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Caroline Ivey's The Family is reassuring in its pedestrian normality. Novelist Ivey has turned to that familiar Southern fixture, a genteel family going gracefully to seed. Into the Olmstead household comes a Northern son-in-law, brilliant, restless and unhappy. Though he loves his wife, he cannot fit into her family or persuade her to break away from it. Why should they always be kissing and hugging, reminiscing about adolescent trivia, delighting in the vast disorder of their house, and still honoring the obsolete cult of the Southern Lady? Most of The Family is a quarrel-by-quarrel...
...slippery elm . . . for raw throat and other sore tishas." Contemptuous of doctors, she cured her husband of fever by forcing a broth of sheep droppings down his protesting gullet. For stubborn pregnancies she blew powdered tobacco "up one nostril of the expectant mother," and so brought on a fit of sneezing that would "dislodge the most reluctant baby...
Once again in 1825 the College saw fit to renovate its by-laws, this time coming up with 153 regulations. Among other things, vacations were re-scheduled, because it was felt that warm weather served to incite riotous students...
Without Emotion. After studying Freudian analytical methods to fit himself for the task, Cohen still had difficulty finding his way. "I wrote the thesis three times," he says, "first with all my emotions, then with some of my emotions, finally with no emotions." Even so, he left in some very personal touches...
...tried to revive after the AMA's sitting army snuffed it out last year, shows no grounds for these fears. There is a wide gap between government aid and government control. Under the bill, medical schools would receive a fixed sum for each student, to use as they see fit. The only hint of control is the Public Health Council, composed mostly of doctors, who would check each school every few years to make certain the money was not being squandered...