Word: pharmacist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...write about it, because he doesn't want to discourage anybody. His news: at the time of the election, "General Eisenhower suffers the transit of Neptune and Saturn over his Sun," and that is really bad. His conclusion: Stevenson, like a shooting star. ¶Adlai Stevenson, a pharmacist in Greenville, Texas, joined the national Stevensons-for-Eisenhower Club. Texas Adlai, no kin, though he was named for the Democratic candidate's grandfather (Vice President under Grover Cleveland), said he thinks there is "too much flip-flop stuff going on up in Washington." ¶Four big names...
...million times a year - some worried citizen peers down the length of one of the nation's 50,000 drugstores - past the lunch counter, the toys, the plastic raincoats, the hair lotions and tooth powders - and finally catches sight of the little glass booth marked "Prescriptions." To the pharmacist in the booth he hands a slip of paper marked with the magical device, "Ŗ" the name of a drug and a few cabalistic symbols squiggled in abbreviated Latin. A few minutes later, the customer walks out of the drugstore again, confident that he has been given just what...
...Spoken Word. In Phoenix, Ariz., James Malloy, manager of an employment agency, mentioned a job as a pharmacist to a young applicant who replied: "I've never worked on a farm before...
...most part, wrestlers are men of a high intellectual caliber. I know several dentists, one M.D., a pharmacist and several lawyers who are professional wrestlers. Many are college graduates. And as a result, they are intelligent in their approach to conditioning for the sport. They fully realize the hazards and, unlike most athletes, they accept final [doctor's] rulings ... As a matter of fact, many are neurotic about their health; they are cooperative and understanding when it comes to accepting treatment...
...country has no colleges, and only 16 college graduates. It has only three lawyers. There is not a single Libyan physician, engineer, surveyor or pharmacist in the land. No more than 250,000 Libyans can write their own names; the rest use thumbprints as signatures. Eye diseases, especially trachoma, are so widespread that 10% of the population is blind...