Word: stillness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Philadelphia nearly everybody still says pavement for sidewalk, a leftover from British colonial days...
...contracts were signed. Moreover, in Harlem, where he owns and operates four businesses (including Sugar Ray's Café), even his friends suspected that the champ had grown soft on easy living. But Sugar Ray, beaten only once in 98 professional fights, proved last week that he still had everything under control...
...15th Century, Venice still drew on a great and profitable commerce with the East. Riding the crest of the Renaissance, industrious Venetian artists were turning out more paintings than the artists of any other city in Europe...
...annual convention of the American Osteopathic Association heard papers and discussions on neuropsychiatry, gynecology, proctology, techniques in brain surgery. But stamping them as "sectarian," within the definition of the American Medical Association, was their obsession with the memory and dogma of osteopathy's founder, Dr. Andrew Taylor Still, whose life and work were endlessly eulogized...
Built-in Drugstore. Virginia-born Dr. Still was a lanky (6 ft. 4 in.), bearded frontiersman who studied the art of healing with his father, a medical missionary among the Shawnee Indians. In 1864, Still lost three children in an epidemic of spinal meningitis. The shock crystallized his dissatisfaction with current medical methods. After ten years of horse-and-saddlebag practice in Missouri, Still proclaimed his faith...