Word: salts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Joseph I. Greenwell began practice in his home county, he had to be a horse & buggy doctor. It was 1900; no horseless carriage had yet been seen around New Haven, Ky., nestled in the valley of a river picturesquely named Salt Rolling Fork, and if it had, it could not have penetrated the surrounding hills...
Somehow, the busy doctor of Salt Rolling Fork found time to go to Mass each morning, to keep his knowledge up to date by attending State Medical Association meetings, and to raise a family of twelve (eight still living). Last week, for his long and devoted service to his community, the A.M.A. voted Dr. Greenwell, now 80, "the family doctor of the year...
...throughout Europe. The jawbone, according to the scientists' report in the British Museum Bulletin, fared even worse: it proved to be the jaw of a modern ape, probably an orangutan, which died at the age of ten. It had been artificially colored with potassium bichromate and an iron salt to make it look old, and its teeth had been pared to make them look more or less human. Unanswered still was the question of who had planted the fake. Dawson, who died in 1916 and whose monument stands near the Piltdown gravel pit, may have doctored the jawbone...
Before dawn one day last week, a program director and six technicians from KDYL-TV parked their mobile unit in the backyard of the County General Hospital in Salt Lake City and set up telecasting equipment in the infirmary's amphitheater. At 7 o'clock, when the sun had barely risen and the station's regular viewers were not expected to have reached for their selector knobs, Dr. Robert S. Warner stood before a camera and explained that the upcoming program was intended for doctors only. However, there was no way to keep the general public from...
...glorious Mother." Balboa knelt, commanding his men to do likewise, "and gave thanks to God for the grace He had shown him in allowing him to discover that sea." Later, Balboa and his men scrambled down to the sea's edge, stood knee-deep in the salt water, and took "possession corporal and present of these austral seas and lands and coasts and islands with everything annexed to them or which might pertain to them ... in times past, present or to come...