Word: soother
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Year'' I wish to nominate the man responsible for America's continued peaceful attitude, the soother of all worries of foreign powers involving us in war. . . . Secretary of State Cordell Hull...
...week a job he invented and made famous: dean of men at the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign, Ill), Graduate of Illinois (1890), onetime professor of rhetoric, onetime acting dean of the College of Literature & Arts, he became in 1909 the first U.S. dean of men: chastener of delinquents, soother of parents, information bureau, helper of the needy, social and moral adviser. A year ago he reached 67, age limit for university officials, was asked to stay on until the University's new president, Harry Woodburn Chase, was installed. Also, they wished him to break in his successor, Fred...
...forbearance of women to pains" lets them endure the pangs of drug withdrawal; bad associations were to blame for almost every drug user in New York; nine out of ten drug addicts use heroin alone, or in combination with morphine, opium, cocaine, laudanum or paregoric (opium derivative, oldtime baby soother...