Word: patients
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ordinary anemia which many girls experience. Nor is pernicious anemia that faintness that comes on with occasional loss of blood. In such cases the blood marrow of the bones immediately manufactures enough strong red blood cells to make up for the lost ones. In pernicious anemia, the patient may live two or three years, but hope for complete cure has heretofore been vain. Blood transfusions give only temporary relief...
...Eliot possessed, in the highest degree, the personal qualities and the administrative ability essential to successful leadership in education. He was sincere, ardent with due restraint, an untiring and careful student of details whether of policies or practices, fertile in constructive suggestions, clear and cogent in exposition and debate, patient in the face of opposition whether reasonable or unreasonable courageous, absolutely fair in all his dealings. During his administration and under his leadership the Faculty of Arts and Sciences discussed freely and frankly the measures brought before it whether by the President or by a member of the Faculty...
...great variety of causes and to the labors of a group of men in the Corporation, Overseers, and Faculties, who worked together toward common educational and ethical ideals." All who know the history of Mr. Eliot's presidency realize that it was his own strong, patient, sagacious leadership which made this expansion of the University possible...
...might well be. Certainly no conscientious physician in charge of a serious case will waive his judgment of the need of his patient because of the dictate of a legislature or the opinion of a bench of judges...
...Farmers may have had doubts concerning their ability to avoid bankruptcy, bankers may have hastily condemned the Federal Reserve System, or anything which might be responsible for the present financial disasters, and manufacturers may have looked askance at trade: but now everything is settled the doctor has declared the patient to be in the best of form and therefore there can be no possible excuse for lamentations. But Mr. Hoover should travel west, north and south. He might see more than the rolling countryside: and he might return to investigate his accountants and to add up once more the figures...