Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...father was a regimental physician, and Sibelius was born at Tavastehus, a small town in the interior of Finland. He was just an ordinary little boy when he began to study the piano at the age of nine, but he started to compose almost immediately. At 15 he took up the violin, with the local military bandmaster as instructor. In his mature years he confessed to an early ambition to become a great violinist. The respectable Sibelius family, however, considered a career as a musician too precarious. They suggested law, and for a time the young composer dutifully pegged away...
Contrary to popular belief, Nathaniel Ames, and not Ben Franklin, published the best colonial almanac. A Dedham physician and inn-keeper, Ames distributed his first issue in 1725. His publication became the most popular of its kind in New England and reached the then enormous circulation of 60,000. His calendar included such bits of wit as this: "Dec. 7-10. 'Ladies take heed, Lay down your fans, And handle well, Your warming paus...
Died. Dr. Elie Faure, 64, French art critic and parlor anarchist, author of what many still consider the world's most authoritative History of Art; in Paris. Dr. Faure turned writer after having been educated as a physician, took twelve years, 1909-21, to publish his History...
...Dewell ruled out all evidence leading up to the time the victims were released at the police station. Thus the prosecution had to build its case on the recollections of the two survivors, Eugene F. Poulnot, head of the Florida Workers' Alliance, and Samuel R. Rogers, a onetime physician who now practices tree surgery...
...Mont Laurier, Quebec. Lumberman Henri Chagnon became so annoyed when a fractured leg failed to heal that he stumped in on crutches to see his physician. Dr. Gustave Roy. Said Henri Chagnon drawing an ancient revolver: "Make your act of contrition. I am going to kill you." He pulled the trigger, his gun failed to go off, he went to jail...