Word: humes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Involved in a more or less histrionic way are, among others, Fay Wray and Betty Furness, a couple of fugitives from the Hollywood quickie lots who don't have too much to do, but look decorative. Hume Cronyn, who has gotten good notices in rather poor plays in the last few years, plays the politically ambitious D.A. and comes out pretty well trying to make a highly exaggerated role bearable through the whole evening. It might also be appropriate to mention in passing that one of the co-authors is the husband of Gloria Stuart...
...three elementary courses Phil. A is far and away the best. It is also the hardest, reading the works of a selected group of philosophers (Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Hume, etc.) The course is well organized, and Demos is an interesting lecturer. Not only does this course give non-concentrators a sound ground-work in philosophy, but it is excellent for concentrators, because the main stress of their divisionals will be upon individual...
...Williams on Hume, in Phil. 14c, the lectures are good and the course well organized. Williams is popular, and is regarded as one of the up and coming men of the department, and a sound knowledge of Hume is desirable for divisionals
...Edward Hicks Hume, founder of the Yale-n-China Medical College, recently published a fascinating little book on old Chinese remedies The Chinese Way in Medicine; Johns Hopkins Press, $2.25). Dr. Hume points out that ancient Chinese doctors, dusty as they may seem, were he first in history to use: 1) liver as an antidote for anemia; 2) iron-bearing seaweed for thyroid disease; 3) ephedrine for colds...
...boisterous lower-formers. The story goes that only once did the Doc's roars fail to achieve their intended effect. A kitchen worker ran amok through the Middle House one morning, brandishing a cleaver. When the man paid no heed to the Doc's bellowing, Dr. Hume took off his coat, knocked the fellow down, sat on his chest and calmly told his pupils to call the police...