Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Founded in 1925 in Washington, D.C. by a physician-nun, Mother Anna Dengel, the Medical Mission Sisters now have 170 members, maternity hospitals in India, England, Atlanta. They conduct one of the three schools for midwives in the U.S. The others: Kentucky's Frontier School of Midwifery, Manhattan's Maternity Center Association...
...Russian press exploded with charges that the shooting was obviously political, because the bandits failed to take money from either the cash register or the Ukrainians. Lev I. Medved, a physician who heads the Ukraine's delegation to ECOSOC, said that Stadnik had been shot by a dum-dum bullet (contrary to The Hague Convention governing civilized warfare), sputtered: "Thousands of people in the U.S. are not shot every day. This is an exception." Stadnik complained he had fought through World War II without a scratch-only to be struck down in a supposedly friendly land...
...period realism: Miss Oberon's remarkable hourglass figure, apparently devised by an efficient studio make-up department to set off her eye-popping 1900 wardrobe. Merle plays an unprincipled baggage who succeeds in marrying Archeologist George Brent over the protests of Brent's worldly friend and physician, Dr. Paul Lukas. After a few days in turn-of-the-century Egypt, surrounded by her husband's tiresome scientific friends, Merle gets a discontented look...
Moscow-trained Viet Nam Leader Ho Chih-minh did not mourn for Thinh, the statesman, or for Thinh, the rich rice grower. Ho said acidly: "The loss of an excellent physician ... is regrettable." But warrior monk Thierry d'Argenlieu, French High Commissioner in Indo-China (who had been granted leave by the Vatican from his duties as head of French Carmelite monks to take a naval command in the first years of the war), knelt at a flag-and flower-draped coffin, solemnly kissed the cold forehead of Dr. Thinh. Said he: "In an Annamite country, it requires infinite...
...clothes he wore. At East India House, the Company directors handed the creator of Singapore a bill for expenses amounting to ?22,000. A few days later, on the morning of his 45th birthday, Raffles was found at the foot of his staircase, dead of apoplexy. Said the physician in his report: "The sufferings of the deceased must, for some time past, have been most intense...