Word: haggard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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PROFESSOR HAGGARD has written his history of the world--and viewing the world from the eyes of one predominantly interested in the position of the medicine man and the status of medicine in society it is a very interesting work. It makes no Wellsian pretensions at all-inclusiveness but strives rather to strike the high and essential points in the development of medicine through the ages to its present state. Dr. Haggard is not cramped by a sketchy knowledge of history, his facts are ever accurate and his general views concise and well-grounded. From Imhotep who started the ball...
Presidents. New president of the American College of Surgeons, succeeding William David Haggard of Vanderbilt University, is tall Robert Battey Greenough of Boston's Huntington Memorial and Massachusetts General Hospitals. Dr. Donald Church Balfour, 52, was elected to succeed President Greenough next autumn. He joined the Mayo clinic in 1907. From the first, the Mayo Brothers were pleased to note, patients whom he cured always stopped to say goodby. In 1910 Dr. Balfour married Dr. William James Mayo's elder child, Carrie. He is generally rated the foremost U. S. authority on surgery of the stomach and duodenum...
...Jewish captain named Alfred Dreyfus a pistol, told him it was the officer's way out. Captain Dreyfus chose to live. Through four years of imprisonment on Devil's Island he lived, while mobs rioted, cabinets fell, all France divided into Dreyfusards and Anti-Dreyfusards. Grey and haggard, he lived to see Emile Zola & friends clear his name, to serve at the front in the World War, to be raised to the rank of lieutenant colonel. Last week, to many a Frenchman troubled by L' Affaire Stavisky, it came as a shock to be reminded that Colonel...
...House, was whisked upstairs by private elevator to the large office of District Attorney Samuel John Foley. Disguised in a brown cap and smoked glasses, the nation's No. 1 hero sat among a half-dozen detectives while another young man was brought in. He was unshaven, collarless, haggard Bruno Richard Hauptmann, indicted for extortion, suspected of kidnapping and murder. He was posed this way and that, made to walk, talk, sit, stand. Occasionally the man with dark glasses shifted his position for a better view, but Prisoner Hauptmann took no notice of his presence, had not given...
...sponged on acquaintances in England, Scotland, Wales, often on the point of starving, making enemies, running up debts, a "haggard, shabby, shy, priestly-visaged individual" with a bitter tongue, a growing obsession that there was a conspiracy against him. Attracted by his esoteric learning, his writings, his often brilliant conversation, people took him up, helped him, paid dearly...