Word: successes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reads 14 languages, has taught and lectured from Cornell University to Zurich, is an expert on such things as medieval prescriptions and the 16th-Century treatment of gunshot wounds. To Dr. Sigerist, however, medicine is not only a science whose triumphs are technical improvements, but a service whose success is measured by the ability of a small group of men to make mankind's life more livable. Even in his first enthusiasm over the U. S., Dr. Sigerist felt medical care was unevenly distributed, that physicians had not yet found their proper place in a complex new society...
...Kenneth Collins and Macy's parted company. The Straus Brothers, Macy's principal owners, never liked the Collins passion for personal publicity, which included morsels such as a debate with Novelist Faith Baldwin on "Is Charm Vital to Business Women's Success?" Returning from Europe one time, he gave out a half-column interview which was published with a two-column picture. Below was the notation: "Also aboard was Percy S. Straus, vice president of R. H. Macy...
...Ukrainian separatist movement of the 19th Century was little more than a dream fostered by a few Galician intellectuals. During the World War it became a German-imported article which reached its greatest success when the Tsar was overthrown, the Russian armies collapsed and German Warlords Paul von Hindenburg and Erich Ludendorff decided that the Ukraine would be a good bread basket for Germany's starving armies. At the fortress of Brest-Litovsk (now in Poland) on March 3, 1918, a Russian delegation signed a humiliating treaty which detached from All the Russias not only Finland and the White...
...Glasgow. There for 15 years, living in the slums himself, he taught slum children about "who discovered America and other such nonsense." He wrote plays which got a hearing at Dublin's famed Abbey Theatre, but brought in little income. England and Scotland ignored him. The U. S. success of Shadow and Substance last year gave Carroll his first independence, enabled him to quit teaching, buy an old country villa...
...congratulate you on getting your course in Marriage started and wish you all success. Ernest R. Groves, Director of the Marriage Conference, University of North Carolina...