Word: patients
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Belgian Rutabagas. Often has Belgium been in the path of conquest (Caesar, Wellington, Kaiser Wilhelm, Adolf Hitler). Last week the Belgians were starving again. Gaunt young mothers carried babies doomed to die. Where there was one pre-war tuberculous patient, there were now four. The wide-moated farms of the polders produced food for Germany. For the Belgians there were rutabagas. Said the Swedish Committee for Relief of Belgian Children: "The mortality among children in Belgium is now . . . as bad, if not worse, than in Greece...
...immediately. Widener fails to maintain the traditionally smooth organization of courses like History 1. Although books are being brought over as they are needed, the History, Government, and Economics department is besieged with the complaints of disappointed book-seekers. And the staff in the larger library is not so patient with the Freshmen as the men in Boylston were. In Boylston the full paraphernalia of assignments, maps and Shepherds were easily accessible. Now even the textbooks have to be dug out from the material of dozens of advanced courses. Officials of the department declare that the new system is injurious...
...Unfortunately, however, they didn't work out so well, and we learned our lesson. We returned to girl graders, and find them more efficient, conscientious, and patient than men." This was too much for Grouser. "Why, I didn't even think they were human," he blurted out. By way of reply, Professor McNair called a Dr. Larsen, and warned by telephone of "the approach" of a first term skeptic." So Grouser was soon on his way to Baker...
...allows the patient to walk gently on his broken leg in about two weeks; to put his whole weight on it, without cane or crutch, in three weeks. > Thus it prevents the muscular atrophy and stiffening of the joints which commonly result from a plaster cast...
...said doughty, blue-eyed Joseph Cardinal MacRory, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, when he visited the U.S. in 1935. Last week the 81-year-old Cardinal addressed Americans in a different fashion. He found it "exceedingly hard to be patient," he complained, when he thought of "my own corner of my country overrun by British and U.S. soldiers against the will of the nation." By "my own corner" the Cardinal meant 66% Protestant Ulster, where he was born, lives...