Word: humbler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have made enormous strides in the past, more frequent medical care in virtually every part of the country is a sine qua non for a rise in the standards of national health. Only through well-equipped clinics, which in many cases will have to receive state subsidies, can our humbler citizens afford expert, specialized consultation. Those who furiously denounce all group practice as "undemocratic" and "socialistic" are still living in the Horse and Buggy Days. Only by efficient, economical use of the new weapons at its disposal can the medical profession march on to new triumphs in its ceaseless struggle...
...noise and magnificence, led by a sleek touring car on whose back perched a fattish, blinking, middle-aged Negro in a brown tweed suit whose peculiarity is that he recognizes himself as God. Behind Major J. ("Father") Divine rode a squadron of his women cultists straddling big brewery horses. Humbler worshipers followed in cars, trucks and afoot, in a line that stretched back through the hot streets almost a mile. "PEACE IS WONDERFUL!" shouted bright placards. "PEACE! PEACE!" Occasion for this celebration was a real-estate deal...
...years ago, when Baritone Lawrence Tibbett and 114 other highly paid opera stars and concert artists formed the American Guild of Musical Artists and called it a labor union, humbler musicians had to laugh. But a year later, Baritone Tibbett's dress-collar union acquired an A. F. of L. charter and set about organizing opera from top to bottom, from $1s-a-week spear-carriers to prima donnas. Soon A. G. M. A. had negotiated agreements with Los Angeles' Hollywood Bowl, the itinerant San Carlo Opera, the New York Hippodrome Opera, and most of the smaller...
...prospect. He once, it is now known, had the Raman Effect** in his apparatus, trembling on the verge of detection, but he did not detect it. The phenomenon was discovered in 1928 by Physicist Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman of India, who received the Nobel Prize in 1930. In his humbler moments, Wood admits that, even had he discovered the phenomenon, he did not have the theoretical background which would have conveyed to him its importance. But in experimental physics, the diverse contributions of Robert Williams Wood have been of immense value, and for them he has been amply applauded. A realist...
...Importance of Living Author Yutang sets down what he thinks are the most useful ingredients for a Chi-nese-American way of life. Banning Buddhism because "it is too sad," he likes the Taoist-Confucianist view better, but cheerfully admits that he has taken many of his opinions from humbler authorities who include "Mrs. Huang, an amah in my family; a Soochow boatwoman with her profuse use of expletives; a Shanghai street car conductor ... a lion cub in the zoo; a squirrel in Central Park in New York. . . ." But his main guide is himself...