Word: learns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...centenary issue that made young Dr. Gray look more alive than ever. Medical students round the world have for generations hefted Gray's weight (now 6 Ibs. 4 oz.), painfully leafed his pages (now 1,604) and paid his price (now $18) in order to learn what Gray taught himself...
Just who does Frankie think he is? Thank heavens for those good old Methodists and others who put up a howl in Madison. Frankie Boy has a lot to learn before he is put out to pasture...
...revealed, is made of at least twelve different herbs and roots (his secret). The recipe came down to him through his grandfather and father, but is so complex that it took him seven years to learn to brew a proper cup. Dosage for any and all mental ills: one piping hot cup the first day, three daily with meals for the next three days. Upjohn tried it on a white mouse, which is trained to leap onto a wooden block at the sound of a bell to escape an electric shock. After ten minutes the mouse walked sedately...
...Married couples have three equally important duties: procreation, sexual relations and the obligations of family loyalty. To keep all three "in one frame of moral reference is an art man has had a long fight to learn, and must still steadily fight to preserve." However difficult the balance may be, the new freedom that modern methods of contraception brings to "sexuality in marriage in our time is ... a gate to a new depth and joy in personal relationships between husband and wife. At a time when so much in our culture tends to depersonalize life-to erode and dissolve...
...learn from White that each baron owed the King an annual sniff of hot pie in payment of his feudal dues, that a certain bone from the body of a pure black cat that had been boiled alive was believed to make one invisible. Against these curiosa, the characters still manage to hold their own: Sir Galahad, who is so priggish a saint that lesser knights loathe him; Jenny, who cannot make her mind up whether to be a good woman or go on in her usual way; Lancelot, the ugly duckling who is loved by all save himself. Balancing...