Word: physical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ourselves whereby we perceive the external world and express the world within us." The Corbusier battle cry is Order; without it tomorrow's metropolises will be but romantic jumbles as are contemporary London, New York and all Continental cities. According to him, city planners must use architectural physic and surgery. Obstacles will be man's persistent following of the least resistance line, his respect for the past. As the straight line is best for the ideal city, the curved line being too rococco and impractical in an age of metal construction, the city of the future must...
White chinned Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré, facing the facts, insisted that the agreement be ratified at once, as written, without reservation. Like bilious children avoiding bitter physic, the Deputies fought against ratification and used the issue as excuse to shin-kick the Poincaré cabinet. Meeting outside to Chamber, both the Finance Committee and the Committee on Foreign Affairs voted to ratify the debt agreement provided that a reservation was inserted making France's payments to the U. S. conditional on Germany's payments to France under the Young plan. Patiently Premier Poincaré reiterated that this...
Benjamin Waterhouse, Hersey Professor of Theory and Practice of Physic...
...than frogs, birds and an occasional cadaver. But these things it penetrated so shrewdly that the doctor had an idea. It was not, solely, his idea, but rather an astounding improvement on the theories of his teacher, Dr. Hieronymus Fabricius of Aquapendente. This doctor lectured at the school of physic at Padua, Italy, and the inquisitively inclined can still visit the great carved room where Dr. Harvey first heard from Dr. Fabricius of the valves he had discovered in the veins. But Dr. Fabricius was foggy on one point. In common with other great medical minds of his time...
...Joseph Beecham while a boy helped cure sick farm animals, found that the English peasants liked potent effects from their medicines. They even used horse remedies on themselves. So when, at 20, he devised his physic pill he used aloes, ginger and soap. Aloe is bitter and astringent, and is used under prescription for some cases of menstrual irregularities, chronic constipation, atonic dyspepsia and worms. It is apt to be intensely griping, an effect which Sir Joseph modified with his ginger -but not too much, for his customers wanted lively results. The pills themselves are lively. They bounce 14 inches...