Word: galen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mask-faced pharmacist smiles at you from behind his counter. It is fitted out with all the fake arcana of his trade, looming RX signs, mysterious-looking vials containing nothing but colored water, and selected two-color prints from Great Moments in Pharmaceutical History: "Galen at Work," "Dr. Fleming Peeling Oranges," and so forth...
...students fail to sign the checks in time, they will be able to reapply for aid, Ruth Galen, a financial aid staff memeber, said yesterday. However, if the new loan did not come through in time for spring term registration, outstanding term bills could prevent students from registering...
...teacher. But she took the Hindu name of Murti Vanya, became a nun in the sect's New York City temple, donned a saffron sari and joined her fellow devotees in chanting in the streets.* Convinced that Merylee, 24, had been brainwashed, her mother hired a private detective, Galen Kelly, to rescue...
...such eclectic scrutiny. Gass hoards azure words and holds them up to the light: "Blue poplar. Blue palm ... the blue lucy is a healing plant. Blue John is skim milk. Blue backs are Confederate bills. Blue bellies are yankee boys." He squints at past authorities on physics (Democritus, Aristotle, Galen), the bet- ter to glimpse the essence of this protean color in the corner of an eye. The mystery remains, more mysterious because Gass so thoroughly exposes its complexities. Yet the humanist does not visit nature for facts but for creative suggestions, and these Gass offers in abun- dance: "Blue...
...Levin was parodying the often incompletely quoted observation of the 2nd century physician Galen: Triste est omne animal post coitum, praeter mulierem gallumque (Every animal is sad after intercourse, except the human female and the rooster...