Word: haussknecht
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...Utmost. Solid and sure, and cheerful as a cherub, 58-year-old Nurse Haussknecht is on a three-month tour of U.S. cities, showing and explaining a series of colored slides of the Lambaréné mission, shaking hands and smiling and answering questions. She tells how old Dr. Schweitzer still makes the last rounds of all the patients in the hospital every night, because two years ago one of them, in reply to his morning greeting, said that he had not slept at all the night before, "waiting for you to say good night...
...Emma Haussknecht sat in a comfortable living room in Manhattan, talking about 28 years of work among the tribesmen of Africa: healing the sick, clearing forests, nailing together the laths for hospital buildings, draining swamps, teaching hygiene and worshiping...
Pillar of Strength. When she was only eight, in the Alsatian village of Colmar, the same region where Dr. Schweitzer himself grew up, Emma Haussknecht dreamed about going to Africa some...
...Africa to be one of Dr. Schweitzer's nurses. When ill health forced his wife to give up the mission and return to Europe, Emma Haussknecht became Dr. Schweitzer's chief nurse and helper - a chunky, snap-eyed pillar of strength...
This year Albert Schweitzer was too busy with a new leprosarium to visit the U.S. to report on the work in Africa to the thousands of Americans who have been providing the mission with money, drugs and materials. So he sent Emma Haussknecht...
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