Word: patiently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...infinitely patient Isaac Burton Tigrett, 65, can get control of the bankrupt midwest Alton Railroad Co., as he was all set to do last week, he will have reached a goal he set for himself 34 years ago. Rail roader Tigrett's goal: to tie together a rail system reaching from the Gulf to the Great Lakes...
...immensely enjoyed taking over bits & pieces of broken-down railroads in the Deep South, linking them together, and making them work for a profit. The end product of this patient toil is the prosper ous 1,970-mile Gulf, Mobile & Ohio Rail-foad Co., that links Mobile and New Orleans with East St. Louis...
...patients, lying on their neat beds, lounging on the porches, tying fish flies, are bored, critical, worried. Day in & out, all they have to look forward to are the doctor's daily visit, a Gray Lady with some books, movies (if the patient is up to it) three times a week, and food three times a day. They talk to each other endlessly about every detail of their cures, tell outsiders horror stories (usually highly colored) of neglectful medical treatment...
Monstrous holes in the skull and other bones are now being mended with a sort of bone sawdust obtained from the patient himself. Toronto's Lieut. Colonel Stuart Douglas Gordon, 43, who developed the method, has even managed "rebuilding [of] the better part of a soldier's skull, including a completely new eye-socket and cheekbone." The material which Colonel Gordon uses, called cancellous bone, is the spongy substance found between hard bone and marrow. The body's biggest storehouse of it is the hip bone. In its new site, cancellous bone becomes hard and fixed within...
...cook (who suffered from "an unfortunate hereditary malady") chased his sister around the Women's Bible School with a knife. "Being a good law-abiding Christian," said the cook, "certainly does break down a man's patience in the end." But the Presbyterian Espeys remained patient to the end. To son-&-heir John J. Espey, these scenes of Shanghai childhood seemed nothing out-of-the-way - until his parents brought him home to the U.S. in 1930 (he now teaches English at Los Angeles Occidental College). Minor Heresies is a gay and graceful account of his exotic boyhood...