Word: patient
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...loses weight, wastes away. He suffers from a fever that fluctuates with the time of day.* Prevention should start in childhood, the period when a predisposition to the disease may be developed, Professor Gaetano Ronzoni, of Milan, said to the International Union. Later, it is possible to cure a patient with persistent, attentive care...
...loved the world and knew its changing story. Reds ring together like swords clashing in a book; the silver of the hills, mountain greenery, the gold of the sea, blend and flash under the square border where no wind blows, where the genii squat on their haunches, half-gods patient of subjection, waiting without haste for the repose of all things...
...each of the one thousand member hospitals of the association were present. In addition two thousand others of their personnel attended. Each of them-the men and the women, the laity and the profession-had given of their time, their money, their lives, on committees, on staffs, on patient registers, to hospital work. And, as there is no anger like that of the hampered welldoer, each wanted to speak forth on the injur ies to his intentions. Some criticisms and suggestions: Trustees. "They are often woe fully ignorant of even the pressing problems of their institutions. They employ officers...
KYRA KYRALINA-Panait Istrati -Knopf ($2.50). Five years ago, hospital attendants in Nice found upon the person of a wretch who had cut his throat unsuccessfully, a letter addressed to Author Romain Rolland, the French pacifist-humanist. The patient lived and, encouraged by M. Rolland, wrote many stories, of which this book contains the first three to be published in English...
...American government has proof of its attitude toward the Filipinos in the fact that it sent Gen. Leonard Wood to the islands. No one living has made such a distinguished record of patient, high-minded service in guiding a people along the difficult road to self-government...