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...Priests, Lawyers, and Physicians." Divine aid was considered more important than that of the physician. Only through God's grace could one escape disease or survive its attack. In The Angel of Bethesda, the first general treatise on medicine written in the colonies, Cotton Mather advised in 1724, "Lett us look upon Sin as the Cause of sickness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bicentennial Essay: The Struggle to Stay Healthy | 8/9/1976 | See Source »

...loose coalition of student radicals, minority - group "liberation fronts" and militant women's organizations. The Harvard chapter is composed mainly of the former members of the now-defunet New Lett caucus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Picket at M. I. T. | 10/30/1969 | See Source »

...Hector Berlioz ("EC-tor BEAR-li-oss"), Emil Waldteufel ("VAAL-toy-ful"), Kurt Weill's Die Dreigrosch-enoper ("Dee Dry-GROSH-en-oper"), Puccini's Gianni Schicchi ("Johnny SKEE-ky"), Prokofiev's ballet, Chout ("Shoo!"), Conductor Eugen Jochum ("OY-gen YOK-hum"), Pianist Jorge Bo-let ("HOAR-hay Bo-LETT"). Advanced players will discover certain unaccountable omissions: where are Monteverdi's Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda or Composers Karl Heinz Stockhausen and Max Wilhelm Karl Vogrich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Ah-ca-PELL-cT | 5/2/1960 | See Source »

...Dictionary goes a long way toward clearing up international misunderstandings, but several enlarged new editions will be required before the situation is fully in hand-as in a recent case when a Charleston girl flattened a Manhattan matron with the information that she and Wretched, after a lett dett, were goin' on the tren to Flettruck on Leebadee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LANGUAGE: Sex & Foe Is Tin | 4/11/1960 | See Source »

...first four-minute mile (1954), in the same year beat the Soviet Union's great Vladimir Kuc to set a world record for three miles (he shocked the Red athletes at a post-meet dinner by lighting up a big black cigar); and Anna Lett, 27, pretty blonde TV producer; in London. Ushers: Dr. Roger Bannister and Chris Brasher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 2, 1959 | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

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