Word: physical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Momentary Glow. Gibbon got off to an unlikely start to be historian of anything. Until he was in his teens, he was so frail that his father, Edward Gibbon, gave the name Edward to several succeeding sons-just in case. By his own account, young Gibbon "swallowed more Physic than food," had a "strange nervous affection" in his legs, and was bitten by "a dog most vehemently suspected of madness...
...second inning Yastrzemski muffed a bouncing single. Another run scored. Scott was a clown, but Yastrzemski was everything. By itself the error meant little--only a run. But one had to weigh its physic consequences, its value as a clue thrown out by fortune. Working backwards from the outcome one can always discover the clues. The problem was to work forwards--isolate the clues, determine their value, chart their relationships, and conclude the outcome in advance...
...lapses and that melancholy despair which we see in many wedded persons, though they understand it not, or pretend other causes because they know no remedy; and is of extreme danger. Therefore when human frailty surcharged is at such a loss, charity ought to venture much and use bold physic, lest an over-tossed faith endanger to shipwreck...
...report to the President and Fellows of Harvard College recommending establishment of the School envisioned the building of a "Library enriched with a collection of the most approved authors in anatomy, surgery, physic, chemistry, et cetera--a collection more perfect than any in America, as soon as circumstances will permit." One hundred and eighty-three years later, circumstances have permitted...