Word: minding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when a violent attack of illness fell on him, a physician was called for diagnosis. He felt the pulse, he examined the tongue, he heard the report of the symptoms, then suddenly asked, "How old are you, Mr. Sophocles?" With a ready presence of mind and as pretty ingenuity as if he were not lying at the point of death, Sophocles answered: "The Arabs, Dr. W., estimate age by several standards. The age of Hassan, the porter, is reckoned by his wrinkles; that of Abdallah, the physician, by the lives he has saved; that of Achmet, the sage...
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...Bronx, N. Y., one Morris Goldstein, out-of-work, despondent, slashed his throat, began dictating his will to a policeman, changed his mind halfway through, offered $1,000 for a blood transfusion to save his life, was reported improving...
...then feel the cords cutting through flesh to the bone of his arms, his ankles, the back of his neck. Severe infection set in. North 3-1 survived but was badly crippled. The occasional complaint that reached the outside world was promptly explained as insane maundering of an unbalanced mind. For such is the inevitable stranglehold that a keeper has on his charges. Author North 3-1's testimony suggests severe indictment for the private sanitarium carelessly licensed, and of the state hospital crowded heterogeneously with murderers pleading insanity, with bona fide idiots, and with plain drunkards...
...President has indicated that the commission he has in mind will conduct the most comprehensive investigation of its kind and will include the law's delays in the scope of its survey...