Word: poorness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Shortly afterwards. Widow Becker became acquainted with one Lambert Beyer, who, since he had both money and poor health, was most attractive to her. She became his nurse, cared for him (and for the 40,000 francs in securities which he habitually kept in his apartment) with great tenderness. He died...
...Medicine-1938, a picture of how a young man gets his medical education and interne training, how he sets up practice in a typical small U. S. community, how he accidentally gets and skilfully operates on his first appendix case, how he gives his service free to the poor who attend hospital clinics...
...Yale's Professor of Medicine John Punnett Peters asking that the Federal Government subsidize medical schools, hospitals, research institutions, and pay the hospital and doctor bills of the poor...
Gargantua is a big boy but a Dempsey left hook landing on his stomach might figuratively tear the poor animal in two. . . . He didn't spend years doing bending and mat exercises. A man has 24 ribs. Your encyclopedia will tell you that a gorilla has but 13. Between the ribs, below the breastbone, there are nerve centres. If they are shocked the shock travels to the spine, temporarily causing paralysis. The ribs, and well developed muscles between the ribs, protect these nerve centres. Twenty-four ribs are much more protection than...
Inclined despite his democratic manners to be a playboy, a first recognition of social inequality came to Franklin Roosevelt from seeing the New York poor on excursion steamers as he sailed past on his yacht. The first really good lick destiny got in was his marriage to serious, social-minded Eleanor Roosevelt. Among the many excellent and sobering results of his marriage, avers Ludwig, was that it trained him for keeping peace in Congress. Louis Howe's misanthropic advice checked his "easygoing nature." With his heroic fight against infantile paralysis, the playboy streak was eradicated. So far as Biographer...