Word: giving
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perhaps "The Closing Door" is the right title for the new play at the Wilbur, because it does give some warning of its melodramatic nature. But "The Slowly Opening Door" would more accurately categorize this mystery drama...
Local sportsmen give the powerful Holworthy six a two-touchdown edge over Straus, since they shut out Mower, 47 to 0, and Mathews South, 61 to 0. Holworthy is the highest scorer in both leagues, with a total of 161 points scored to their opponents...
...Kirkland-Lowell game was marred by a muddy field which forced both teams to give up their usual ground patterns for pass offensives. Both Deacon tallies were scored after punts had given Kirkland the ball deep in Lowell territory...
Wounded Modesty. A Budapest grocer's son, hearty, robust Semmelweis went to Vienna in 1836 to study law but soon transferred to medicine. Six years later, as a provisional assistant in the Vienna Lying-in Hospital, he witnessed the horrors that were to haunt his life and give it purpose. One out of every three women who entered the First Division ward died of childbed fever; most victims' babies died too. In other parts of the world the story was even grimmer. At Jena over a four-year period, the death toll among infection victims was 100%. Among...
...life were marked by almost incredible persecution. As director of obstetrics in the miserable, tenth-rate Pesth General Hospital, Semmelweis, working day & night to oversee his prophylaxis, finally managed to cut childbed fever mortality to zero. But his assistants sneered at him and his superiors refused to give him or his theories any credit. When his book, The Etiology, the Concept, and the Prophylaxis of Childbed Fever, met with derision, his mind snapped...