Word: plastically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seems safe to predict that they will never be formulated. At least, they should never be. The mobile and plastic character of youth defy all weighing and balancing with an eye to future usefulness. How often have contemporary judgments of youth shown the futility of the attempt! Many a young firebrand, after showing great promise, has drifted out of sight and has never been heard of more; many an obscure thinker and plodder has surprised an indifferent world with bursts of unsuspected power...
...Plastic surgery (restoration of mutilated features) was practiced in Italy as early as 1456. Noses, lips, ears were repaired. Hospitals of the 14th and 15th Centuries were scrupulously clean; bed linen was changed often; stoves were wheeled to the bedsides of patients in winter. Anatomy was studied by dissection, leprosy almost disappeared, other diseases were isolated.-Prof. Lynn Thorndike, Columbia University...
...perfectly formed, save that the deceased one had, instead of a right leg, a shapeless growth connecting him to the abdomen of his brother. Surgeons were said to have "hurried from all parts of the country" to see the "unprecedented result" of Dr. Philip Mininberg's plastic surgery...
...extent of the danger. There are often fisted columns of names, as though after a serious accident, of those subjected to such addresses. The number alone is impressive; but when one considers that each, through kindness or a sense of duty, exposed a mind ordinarily at that age plastic and at that time unusually impressionable the possibilities are alarming...
...Straton meetings. Of course men like Bishop Lawrence, who hold a great position in the Church, are not included in this discussion. But the quickest way to interest the undergraduates is to get them arguing. And arguing is the only way they will ever come to cement their plastic beliefs. It is good for them to disagree, for only by refuting someone else can they convince themselves. Some may believe that argument and controversy have no place in true religion. If that is the case, true religion has no place among young...