Word: medica
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Coptic manuscripts, one in its original covers, dug from the edge of an oasis by Arabs searching for tillable soil. There was much more to dazzle the imagination: the purple vellum Gospels supposed to have been given to Henry VIII by Pope Leo X; the 10th Century De Materia Medica of Dioscorides; the 13th Century British Psalter with the earliest known picture of a windmill...
...thus breaking the U. S. record (21:27) held by Cinematic Buster Crabbe. At the same meet, Leonard Spence of the New York Athletic Club lowered his time for the 440-yd. breast stroke event to 6:08.8. a U. S. record. A world record fell when Jack Medica, 18, University of Washington freshman, won the 880-yd. free-style race in 10:15.4, clipping 5 sec. from another of Buster Crabbe's records. ¶Frank Parker, 17, of Milwaukee: the Bathing & Tennis Club invitation tennis tournament by beating big, good-natured Frank Shields, No. 5 U. S. player...
...Medical School began to enter into more intimate relations with biology. In the beginning its interests were almost entirely with materia medica, then with bacteriology, and finally they shifted to a full appreciation of the significance of biology for medicine. With this striking growth of the organic sciences it was not surprising that the old quarters and equipment should have become antiquated and inadequate...
...Medica, School. William Bosworth Castle. M. D. '21. Instructor in Physiology since 1924, becomes Assistant Professor of Medicine. Charles Fremont McKhann. A.B. Miami University '18, M.D. University of Cincinnati in 1923, who was Assistant in Pediatrics from 1923 to 1927, and has been instructor in that field since 1927, becomes Assistant Professor of Pediatrics...