Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...list of officers includes Sapers, Roger Hahn '53, Publicity Director, Charles T. Cole '54, House Captain, Robert C. Terry Jr. '54, Research Director, Peter B. Dunne '55, Yard Captain, Samuel A. Cousins '54, Treasurer, and Kirby von Kessler '54, Secretary...
...year-old woman who went to Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital complaining of palpitations and a "smothering sensation" had nothing wrong with her heart. Drs. W. Proctor Harvey and Samuel A. Levine ordered psychiatric treatment for her. Then the patient volunteered to test the effect of a drug (amyl nitrite) on heart sounds. At first the electrocardiograph gave normal readings; so did the phonocardiograph. But as soon as the patient saw the drug, her heart began a machine-gun beat. Scared nearly to death themselves, the doctors put the drug away and her heart went back to normal...
...Faculty was either ignorant of the way undergraduates took advantage of this ruling, or preferred to keep its back turned on the gross mishandling. According to Samuel Eliot Morison, in his "Three Centuries of Harvard," "term-time trips to New York, Montreal, and Bermuda became all too common...
Take for example the patriarchial hero of "East of Eden," Samuel Hamilton. Talented as a blacksmith and inventor, Samuel also "had no equal for soothing hysteria and bringing quiet to a frightened child. It was the sweetness of his tongue and the tenderness of his soul...
That's the main trouble with Samuel; he's too good, too talented, too consistently right. And oh God, the sweetness of his tongue! It's cloying. For pages and pages he talks on in this manner: "You know I've been so close to the details I've paid no attention to the clothing of the day. First we find a buried star and now we go to dig up a mint-new human." And later on he says "The sweetness of your offer is a good smell on the west wind...