Word: patiently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gone for good, Mr. Riderhood, it would be something to know where you are hiding at present. This flabby lump of mortality that we work so hard at with such patient perseverance, yields no sign of you. If you are gone for good, Rogue, it is very solemn, and if you are coming back, it is hardly less so. Nay, in the suspense and mystery of the latter question, involving that of where you may be now, there is a solemnity even added to that of death, making us who are in attendance alike afraid to look...
Researchers looked hard and long for a drug to cure tuberculosis. When it appeared hopeless to get rid of the germs without hurting the patient, interest in the search slowed up. Then the discovery of sulfanilamide dramatized the fact that chemicals can fight bacteria safely-not by killing them, but by hampering their vital processes. The search for a tuberculosis cure was revivified. No one has the answer yet, but new clues are turned up every week. Recent ones...
...Doctors generally believe that the barbiturates are a safe way of soothing a patient, if the patient follows orders-since the deadly dose is some 15 times the sleeping dose. They consider most "accidental" barbiturate deaths as suicide, and point out that people who really want to commit suicide could do it almost as easily with too much aspirin or by eating a lot of toothpaste-certain kinds...
Young Dr. Graham does not expect to be kept too busy at the White House-the President's health being what it is. Besides giving his No. 1 patient a daily once-over, the Colonel hopes to continue surgery at Walter Reed (so long as he stays in the Army) and teach in his spare time. Said he: "I asked Dad if this was a political appointment, because I like to stay away from that sort of thing, and Dad said:'No, it certainly...
Psychologist Patient. A psychologist has been studying this group of quacks and thobbers for the past twelve years. Small, quick Mrs. Lee R. Steiner, who has degrees from the University of Minnesota and Smith College, and training in psychotherapy from Pioneer Alfred Adler (TIME, Sept. 10), read classified ads, went calling on palmists and swamis who hung out shingles. Sometimes she took a friend along as "patient," sometimes she described a neurotic husband (actually she is a widow) or a hypothetical maladjusted, discharged veteran called Junior. What she found out is described in her book Where Do People Take Their...