Word: pisgah
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...laboratory assignment in the fall. Enders did not leap at the offer; he moves too thoughtfully and slowly for that. But he took it. In May 1928 he wrote to a friend: "This antipodal revolution of my studies has been of large value in helping me to obtain that Pisgah* sight of things and people that perhaps is the ultimate aim of my apparently inconsistent, faltering and obscure action." In 1930, at the age of 33, Enders got a Ph.D. in microbiology with a thesis on anaphylaxis (severe allergic reaction...