Word: patiently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prosperous bestseller, and with a few ragged introductions, the self-invited guests started pushing tables together. The saucers recording the prices of the drinks rose higher & higher, and so did the comments on the shameful commercialism of writing books like Main Street and Babbitt. Mr. Lewis was extraordinarily patient, but finally called for the bill-suddenly all chairs but two were empty...
...over-conscientious, oversensitive, or plagued by fears, prejudices, feelings of inferiority. Many individuals and families in this group are poor insurance risks because they seem to have an affinity for accidents (which psychiatrists explain as evidence of an unconscious urge to suicide). A classic case: a guilt-ridden patient who had had 24 major disasters, wrecked eleven automobiles. But this group also includes most leaders and "responsibility takers...
...patient was a middle-aged factory worker who got fed up with his job and his fellow workers. One day he suddenly blew up and was dragged away, struggling, to a hospital. There he quickly developed total amnesia; he could not even recognize his wife. A month later, still in a mental fog, he was examined by Boston's Psychiatrist Abraham Myerson...
...device called the "Spectro-Chrome" that constantly changes its garish-colored lights, jukebox fashion. With head pointing north, the patient receives "tonations" at favorable times of the day, with a "Favorscope," which is supposed to correct unfavorable "solar, lunar, terrestrial radiant, and gravitational influences." Appropriately colored lights, said Inventor Dinshah P. Ghadiali, are wonderfully effective against diabetes, cancer, tuberculosis, appendicitis, syphilis and hundreds of lesser ills. The lamp was not for sale; to be treated, a patient had to join Ghadiali's "institute...
...Central Railway, when 7,000 workers died before the rails had been pushed out of the valley. The first investigator of the disease was a medical student named Daniel A. Carrión, now a Peruvian national hero, who died after inoculating himself with serum from a patient's wart. Verruga is still something of a medical mystery. Nobody has ever found out how the sandfly acquires its parasite, where it lays its eggs, why it seems to have thrived only in one narrow area. Doctors have found no effective treatment for verruga. Natives burn animal dung and pungent...