Word: notebook
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...marked "Do not disturb"; but many another is no longer at home. Last week a famed specialist suggested (by implication) that more than one appendectomy he knows about was no better than a kidnapping. Several years ago, Mayo Clinic's famed Digestion Expert Walter Clement Alvarez started a notebook in which he collected experiences of patients whose appendixes had been reft from them. Last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association he told what he had learned from 385 patients. Of these, 130 had suffered at least one sharp bellyache "suggesting appendicitis," and after operation...
...from the town. Later Parris goes to study medicine with Dr. Tower, carries on an affair with neurotic, beautiful Cassandra. The evil of the world smites Parris suddenly in one week when his beloved grandmother dies of cancer, his revered teacher Dr. Tower poisons Cassandra and kills himself. A notebook of Dr. Tower's intimates that he had been more than a father to his daughter. Parris goes off to study under the new psychologists in Vienna...
...came to our next meeting at Phillips Brooks House, and with the air of a professional newspaper reporter whipped out a pencil and notebook. ten of us were seated at the round-table. Our Harvard junior manipulated his pencil. He never spoke. The function of a boll-weevil is not to speak but to bore. After the meeting members remarked to me that they were not being favorably attracted to the Harvard student. The impression which his notebook had made on me had not been entirely pleasant, but I reasoned that here was a student accustomed to take notes...
...came to several meetings, punctually whipping out his pencil and notebook. His monumental silence, continued, from meeting to meeting, promised no help to a movement based chiefly on language. We tried to be human towards him, learned to call him by his first name, but we never overcame our repugnance to the notebook...
Each course has only one class a week-a two-hour seminar. The rest of the week a student spends in reading, field trips, conferring with her teacher. Field trips take students, with notebook and camera, to Manhattan's East Side, city subways, factories, Washington...