Word: pitt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pitt Dr. Parran will have an ideal opportunity to capitalize on his years of public health experience. (As Surgeon General since 1936, he fought long and well to bring venereal disease under control. Last February President Truman fired him without explanation-TIME, Feb. 23.) The school, the most heavily endowed of its kind in the U.S., will be open only to graduate physicians, dentists, nurses, and others trained for public health work, and will concentrate heavily on research in the field of industrial health. As to its opening date, Pitt's Chancellor Rufus H. Fitzgerald said: "The university would...
...that was Britain and might be Britain still is not in these men. They seem too humble even for middleclass, easygoing Scarborough, and much too modest for its Grand Hotel. Yet these modest men indubitably believe themselves the architects of a greater Britain, followers of a loftier vision than Pitt or Disraeli or Churchill...
...story, titled 55 Minutes from Broadway, was an account of the life and death of Gilbert Pitt, recluse, who had lived for 81 years in a dirt-floored shack in the Ramapo Mountains of New York, 30 miles northwest of Manhattan. Together with his housekeeper, Maggie Gannon, he had passed much of his time avoiding the so-called conveniences of modern society. Last spring, suffering from a heart attack, he waited for the dogwood to bloom; then he died...
...other parts of the free world are engaged in a great historical experiment; they are faced with the challenge of establishing and extending the first democratic civilization. For them, news has a meaning that it did not have for plain people in the days of Pericles or Pitt. The decisions of the 20th Century rest with the people. To act, they have to know and to care...
...whole course of our democratic proceedings." Was the government's motto, he asked, "No brains wanted?" Among the departed great who sat for the universities had been Francis Bacon, Sir Isaac Newton (whose only remembered speech was to ask an usher to close a window), the younger Pitt, Peel, Palmerston and Gladstone...