Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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IRVING BRONSKY Geneva, Switzerland...
European medicine has contributed modern surgery, bacteriology, antibiotics, tranquilizing drugs; Switzerland won the Nobel Prize in medicine three times within a ten-year period. And most American professors received their specialty training in Europe. All this from "diploma mills...
...aliens; many U.S. citizens have gone to schools overseas (mostly in Switzerland and The Netherlands) because they failed to get into U.S. schools or lacked premedical science requirements. Canada's schools are rated on a par with U.S. schools, have similar standards...
...never removed his jacket, considering it indecent to show his bare arms. But his priest, Don Aniello Noto, was displeased to learn that the good boy had been expanding his charity operations. In some of his fan letters he received substantial checks, even from two Protestant groups in Switzerland and Austria. Inevitably the time came when the laws of Caesar collided with service to God. The carabinieri threatened to arrest Vittorio for collecting money without a license and to put him in jail...
Nevertheless, he scraped together the money to fetch the moribund Moricand from his rats' castle in Switzerland to the solitude of Miller's own Walden Pond (the Pacific Ocean). Moricand saluted Miller, systematically went about the business of making himself master in Miller's house. He became Mrs. Miller's ally in her daily quarrels with Miller. He demanded gauloises bleues cigarettes, special tooth powder of pumice, writing paper of a special shape. He refused to be pacified by the Pacific, and he plugged his air less room so that no fresh air could leak...