Word: stifler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ugly Doctor. In 1902, when Gordon Stifler Seagrave was five years old, he decided to become a medical missionary in the Shan States of Burma. Twenty years later, with Johns Hopkins Medical School behind him, he began. The American Baptist Foreign Mission sent him and his wife "Tiny" to take charge of a 20-bed hospital at Namkham, a village near the Chinese border on the not-yet-built Burma Road...
...Medical Missionary Gordon Stifler Seagrave formed a mobile medical unit of four missionary surgeons and 35 nurses when Burma was invaded, organized an emergency ambulance service and put field hospitals where they are most needed. Last fortnight Dr. Seagrave set up temporary shop in the middle of a bomb-wrecked and deserted Burmese town, spent three days & nights at the operating table almost without rest, in his ceaseless effort to save the lives of wounded Chinese soldiers...
...many Americans the events of the last 15 months have made the Armistice seem less important and less worthy of a national holiday. So last week Dr. Francis Carr Stifler, editorial secretary of the American Bible Society, suggested that it would be far more appropriate to celebrate the anniversary of the Mayflower Compact this Monday...
...American Legion-which considers Armistice Day as its personal and private property in much the same way that the Grand Army of the Republic once considered Memorial Day-snorted at the very idea of a change. Said Dr. Stifler firmly: "We should celebrate November 11 as the day when the spirit of our free land was really born...