Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sands of Dee near Cheshire, England. He used to filch biscuits and wine from his school larder to give to fishermen as they left at dawn to catch the early tide. One day the family doctor showed him a pickled brain, and young Wilfred, "thrilled," decided to become a physician. After he graduated from the University of London, he set up an office in fashionable Mayfair, but he longed for the sea. So in June 1892 he set sail with a British hospital ship to spend a summer treating the natives of Labrador...
Candidate Arias accepted the surprise nomination of the well-oiled National Revolutionary Party machine, on a platform of "Panamanian nationalism." Shunted off to the directorship of the Department of Sanitation after leading Panama's first and only revolution, dark-eyed, Harvard-trained Physician Arias had been started up the diplomatic ladder by his brother Harmodio. Harmodio was elected President in 1932, sent Arnulfo as Minister to Berlin, then to Rome. Last year he was Minister to Great Britain and France. Still political small fry, only 38 years old, and accused of Fascist inclinations after his Axis appointments, Arnulfo...
...Beverly Hills voice physician, Dr. Harold Barnard, warned him a hundred times to slow down, talk less. Neither pleading nor orders had effect. Said Dr. Barnard for the umptieth time: "He needs a policeman, not a doctor." One evening last week, as the candidate's voice waned into a hoarse rasp, the doctor ordered him flatly to cut it out, sat comfortably down to dinner. Suddenly the train slowed, stopped. Willkie's voice boomed through the dining-car loudspeaker. He had sighted another cluster of voters. Dr. Barnard sighed, got up, switched off the loudspeaker so that...
...King's personal physician Lord Horder (chairman of the Committee of Inquiry into Shelters) summed up last week some of the basic problems with which the King's Ministers were grappling. "The crux of the problem is overcrowding," said Lord Horder. "The Government has the choice between dispersal and the provision of more shelters. But these two courses are not alternatives: both should be taken...
Jupiter Laughs (by Dr. A. J. Cronin, produced by Warner Bros.). In his first play, Dr. Cronin (Hatter's Castle, The Citadel) dwells moodily on the hoary conflict between science and religion. Prime ingredients of his dramatic formula: an agnostic young medico who swears and leches, a lady physician who loves the Lord...