Word: patient
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Naval Hospital at Washington, Dr. Edward Francis was a patient last week, suffering from Malta fever. For several days his temperature was high, 103 degrees and above. But it was certain to go down to normal. As certainly, after a period of ease, it will go high again. Such is the characteristic of the disease, and hence its variant name, undulant fever. It is endemic along the Mediterranean coasts, particularly on the Island of Malta. In the U. S. Texas is the pest area. Those regions raise goats and goats are the carriers of the disease...
...have been most patient, sir. I wonder if you could give me a sententious message for our readers...
...wife of the other opens for him, you would think of "Enoch Arden" or foresee at least the old pattern of passion, quarrel, and reconciliation. And since all stories are old stories, the pattern you foresaw is here, but since some never become familiar you would hardly foresee the patient, particular realism which makes this German "Enoch Arden" into living, modern truth, or guess the force of the emotion shaping the layers of incident to an ending stripped of grandiloquence. Struggling to get out of Siberia, the two comrades (there are only three people in the cast) thirst...
...Luxembourg collection of Impressionist & Post-Impressionist art to the Louvre. For all of the painters the honor was posthumous.* Their long, tempestuous trial at the Luxembourg outlasted their lives. They had tried to paint what they perceived as current realities. Often they were frustrated, tortured in the patient attempts to convey the actualities of their vision. But they believed in an art stimulated by the living, not the dead. For this they were excoriated by a host of pompous academicians, who applauded apes of the classical tradition...
Odysseus was ten years getting home from Troy. Therefore, Homer proves him a hero of the sort that is resourceful when shipwrecked, patient when detained. But Erskine proves him a liar of the sort that is shrewd enough in pursuit of romantic adventures, and shrewder yet in making them appear less romantic than brave. Not shrewd enough however to deceive Penelope with his tale of trying for ten years to get home. "Trying, my dear man! Who kept you back?"-"Fate."-"What was her other name...