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Said Dr. George E. Vincent, President of the Rockefeller Foundation, in a prolog to the annual report of the Foundation, shortly to be issued: "The general practitioner of ability, character and personality is a fundamentally valuable person . . . He cheers, encourages, warns, commands . . . not only a physician, but a friend . . . disappearance would be a serious loss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Contradicta | 7/6/1925 | See Source »

...demagog and a pedagog wrote a prolog for a catalog. When thru, tho, they recited the Decalog in the thorofare." Thus would it be written by members and followers of the Simplified Spelling Board, which held its 19th annual meeting, last week, in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Simple | 4/20/1925 | See Source »

This book is the Epilog to the Biography of which each of his novels, he insists, is a chapter. The Prolog, it will be recalled, was Beyond Life. Mr. Cabell's adroit pen and urbane intelligence have lost none of their skill in the years intervening between the two volumes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Peasants* | 12/1/1924 | See Source »

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