Word: patients
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rhodes and on Leros, Patmos, Kasos and the rest of the Dodecanese Islands there was hope. Since 1912 the patient sponge divers and herdsmen, the shipwrights and honey gatherers had watched their Italian masters strut in the bright Aegean sun. Since 1912 they had heard Vittorio Emanuele's ministers of state promise again & again to end the lawless stay and had seen those promises torn up. Greek in race, religion and language, they fought Italian efforts to Italianize them...
...Grey, patient Elmer Davis had won a victory. But it could not yet be considered a permanent victory. The armed forces had been told off before, and not much had come...
DOUBLE TRAGEDY-Freeman Wills Crofts- Dodd, Mead ($2). A run-with-the-hare and hunt-with-the-hounds affair in which a hard-up English business man murders his wife's rich uncle, and covers his tracks from everybody but the patient and methodical Inspector French, who provides a first-class exercise in clue chasing and deduction...
...Navy doctors administered 72 red-cell transfusions to 48 anemic patients. All but four showed definite improvement. Only two had bad reactions (they became feverish). One patient, apparently dying of pernicious anemia, was given five red-cell transfusions; his red-cell blood count improved from 650,000 to 3,130,000, his hemoglobin from 2 to 11 gm. per 100 c.c., in a month he was able to go home...
...read scarcely more than in 1926. But his admirers, who have numbered most of the discriminating writers and readers since Doughty's day, have kept his patient fame alive, expect that some day he will be recognized as one of the great wielders of English words...