Word: prout
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they died young-the all-out exertion of crew racing was too much for the overstrained heart. Although that belief was challenged as long ago as 1873 in a study of 294 British oarsmen, the myth has persisted-evidently because fiction is more fun than fact. Now Dr. Curtis Prout of the Harvard University Health Services has made an updated study and reports his findings in the current A.M.A. Journal. Prout selected 172 graduates of Harvard and Yale, all of whom had rowed at least once in the four-mile varsity race between 1882 and 1902; for each oarsman...
When pressed, however. he named four doctors who are interested in working on gynecological problems: Dr. Mary C. Eldred, Dr. Curtis Prout, Dr. Sholem Postel, and Dr. Eleanor G. Shore, who was also at the meeting...
...Curtis Prout, associate director of the UHS, said, "It has been a social class disease to a certain extent. In my day, nobody went to bed with a 'nice girl.'" But today, he said, "prostitutes complain that they are being put out of business by amateurs...
...curing venereal disease, gonorrhea in the female is the biggest clinical worry, according to both Dr. Prout and Dr. Nicholas J. Fiumara, director of the Massachusetts Division of Communicable and Venereal Diseases...