Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ever since the President returned from Christmas in Missouri, his personal physician, Colonel Wallace Graham of Kansas City, has kept him on a rigid reducing program. As soon after 5 p.m. as possible, the President pops into a sweatbox beside the White House pool, stews for a few minutes. Then he is let out to face a long, canvas-covered board, slanted at a 45° angle...
When a flu epidemic hit Georgia in 1938, it felled the only available white doctor in Jasper and Putnam counties, left hundreds of his rural patients with one hard-to-swallow recourse. They had to call on gentle Dr. Frederick D. Funderburg, a Negro physician. Working virtually around the clock, Dr. Funderburg attended as many as 60 white patients a day, succeeded in checking the epidemic...
Theological Freewheeling. Unitarians are accustomed to such theological freewheeling. Though early Unitarians-like Spanish Physician Michael Servetus (tried by Calvin and burned for heresy in 1553) and 16th-Century spellbinder Francis David (who converted large sections of Hungary to Unitarianism)-were conspicuous for their denial of the Trinity, modern Unitarianism goes far beyond this ancient heresy. Denying the traditional Christian concept of man's innate worthlessness without God's intervention, Unitarians see man as innately good, see the cause of mankind's ills as lack of ethical intelligence. As "seekers, not believers," they bend their efforts...
...last the Argentine man in the street and cantina had someone to shout about besides Strong Man Juan Peron. The new Democratic Union presidential candidate was Radical ex-Senator José P. Tamborini, a porteño (citizen of Buenos Aires) and ex-physician who makes a meager living translating French and Italian authors. He has a weakness for handsome books, spends hours in Buenos Aires' swank, Goya-lined Jockey Club library...
Winston I looked forward to a holiday in the U.S. His physician had urged "a month or more in a warm climate and . . . complete rest." He would soak up sunlight, brandy and cigar smoke at the Miami home of Canadian Papermaker Frank W. Clarke, his Laurentian camp host after the 1943 meeting with Franklin Roosevelt...