Word: nehemiahs
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...town to town, carrying bags of dirty knives, and even old steels from corsets, for paring customers' corns. They usually charged 25? an operation, raised howls of pain from their victims. One day, while lounging around a hotel lobby, a lush-bearded young man from New Hampshire named Nehemiah Kenison met a Scotsman who had a new, painless method of removing corns. Instead of digging with a scalpel, he first softened the corn in acid, then carefully shelled it out with a dull bone blade...
...Nehemiah Kenison knew a good business when he saw it. He examined the acid, went to Boston, where he set up an office opposite Old South Church. Nehemiah generously taught his trick to his sons and half a dozen relatives, who taught others. So began the science of chiropody...
Last week the National Association of Chiropodists (Podiatrists) met in Bos ton to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of their science. As chairman of the meeting they elected their beaming, balding host - old Nehemiah's nephew, Harry, who practices in Boston. At the convention the chiropodists orated on the "romance" and "epochal" contributions of chiropody, the "divine discontent" of Nehemiah Kenison...
Sirs: ... Of Rear Admiral Nicholson you state, "he was one of two naval men in history to rise from the ranks to wear an admiral's four stars." Rear Admiral Nehemiah Mayo Dyer-Captain of the Baltimore during the Spanish-American War, also rose from the ranks to that of rear admiral...
...went to Boston, became president of the city's Federation of Churches, rescued it from doldrums. At Union Church he will try much the same thing. Though it has had such able pastors as Rev. Dr. Ernest Graham Guthrie (now of Chicago) and the late Rev. Dr. Nehemiah Boynton, Union Church has but 389 enrolled members. Surrounded by lodging houses, it draws polyglot congregations; one Sunday School class is in Chinese. Calling it "a strategic city situation," Dr. Bradley plans to bring in students from Andover Newton Theological School where he will be professor of Applied Christianity this year...