Word: patient
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There was no war, and Tyler's patient negotiation contrasted with Lincoln's conduct, who with the dissolution of the Union staring him in the face made no attempt, as President-elect, to aid Tyler's peace efforts as Virginia Commissioner to Buchanan and as President of the Peace Convention. After Lincoln's inauguration his mind appeared in a kind of maze. He signed important papers without reading them, and while refusing to see the Confederate Commissioners, suffered them to tarry in Washington, where they were fed with all sorts of promises by Seward, his Secretary...
Connecticut's patient Fenn got his 1930-basis reapportionment bill out on the House floor last week and it was debated for three hours. But the same old thing happened. The measure was sent back to committee, i.e. smothered to death. The mirror stays warped...
...election day, last week, patient Gustav Stresemann protested that he felt well enough to go out and vote; but doctors, nurses and Frau Stresemann only tucked him in the closer...
...patient votaries of that curious collegiate cult called "Buchmanism," received last week one of the rebuffs upon which they thrive. The Oxford Isis published a scornful editorial which spoke of "restraint flung aside . . . souls laid bare . . . hysterical confessions . . . fervor which no longer pretends to be religious . . . perverted religious mania . . ." and concluded with these stern and sober words...
...second stage of the disease had set in, he had a monkey from India (Macacus rhesus) inoculated with his infected blood. The monkey died twelve days later from a severe case of yellow fever. Fifty more monkeys were inoculated and succumbed. Finally serum from the blood of Patient Noguchi, recovering from the yellow fever, was administered and the protective antibodies pre vented animals from contracting yellow fever from a subsequent injection of the germ...