Word: health
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Copeland of New York was once "Dr." Copeland and Chief of the New York Department of Health. Now he aspires to the Democratic Presidental nomination. An unnamed Washingtonian, not respecting his aspirations, wrote a health column such as the Senator used to contribute to Manhattan newspapers...
Answer: "Washington, by all means A white house, which is said to be cheerful in appearance and conducive to a happy frame of mind, for those in your state of health, would be preferable to an apartment or a hotel-especially in Washington...
Hell!" In response to an edict of The Faith Tabernacle, the entire sect has refused the services of local physicians; medical science is barred from the homes of all its members. The local health authorities have quarantined both the Tabernacle itself (a $60,000 brick structure), and the homes of nine families. Legal action has been started on the count that they disobeyed the State law in not having their children vaccinated before school age. Alderman Miller: "I am sorry that I can merely hold Winterborne for court on the State charge ... I consider his action in advising the people...
...educated at the Kansas Agricultural College, Cornell University, Berlin, Cambridge, and held numerous honorary degrees. He taught at Colgate, Dartmouth, Columbia, became President of Dartmouth in 1909. Resigning in 1916 to become Professor of physics at Yale, his later years were punctuated by periods of ill health, but he held varied important positions in administration and research at Massachusetts Tech., the Carnegie Institution, the Bureau of Ordnances and Nela Park. The General Electric Company offered him absolute freedom and unsurpassed facilities for pure research; he returned there for his last years to avoid the strain of administrative work. Research...
...Mediaeval Science," by Charles Homer Haskins Hon. '08; "Men and Policies," an eighth volume of Elithu Root's collected addresses; "The Philosophy of Character," by Edgar Pierce '92; a masterly volume on the naval history of the World War, by Thomas G. Frothingham; another monograph in the Harvard Health Talks, "Present day Conceptions of Mental Disorders," by C. M. Campbell," and an entirely new translation of Montaigne, by George B. Ives...