Word: layman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...being diminished; bunks were being installed, sanitation improved, inspections made, first aid provided. But his report did not go un-heckled. A Laborite doctor cried: "If he [Health Minister MacDonald] can remain for ten minutes [in a subway shelter] without becoming sick, he can stand more as a layman than I could stand after 35 years of qualified medical service." Another cried: "Within a quarter of a mile of Parliament there are conditions that would make a primitive tribe in South Africa blush...
...School: "You can't establish the Christian position in relation to conscription by quoting isolated passages from the Bible. ... I long ago stopped using proof-text to justify conduct." Director Paul Burt of the University of Illinois' Wesley Foundation told a pious anecdote about a proof-text layman who turned to the Bible for guidance in his life work, opened it at random to "Judas went and hanged himself." On his second try the alarmed layman hit on "Go thou and do likewise...
...physiotherapy means anything to the layman, it is apt to mean quackery and cultism-high colonic irrigations, spine juggling, nudist colonies. Actually, physiotherapy is an ancient and honorable art which uses such natural methods as heat, massage and exercise to invigorate the body, relieve pain. Though most of its practitioners are laymen, physiotherapy is a special pet of the American Medical Association. Last week, for the umpteenth time, the Journal of the A. M. A. begged doctors to wrest this lucrative and valuable specialty from the hands of the quacks...
Many a soldier stays publicly mum because he believes laymen too stupid to comprehend the complex art of war. Many a layman believes that soldiers hang on to strategic traditions as a fan dancer does her fan, talk little because they think little and have little...
...layman, there was something decidedly vulture-like in such a view. The neurologists' retiring president, Foster Kennedy, pitched into this airy position on other grounds...