Word: thoughtful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics, Librarian Frances Tomlinson Gardner, of the University of California Medical School, says it is doubtful that Jackson ever had tuberculosis, as some biographers have thought. What fooled them, she concludes, was his bronchitis, malarial fever, and a lung abscess caused by the bullet. But he had almost everything else: bronchiectasis (inflamed and dilated bronchial tubes), stomach, kidney and eye trouble; in later years, "cholera morbus" (widespread intestinal inflammation) and dropsy. From another duel he had an open wound in his left arm; doctors wanted to amputate, but he refused and trusted in a poultice of slippery...
Paris evidently thought there was. Masson's last show there was all but sold...
Swiss Theologian Karl Barth has somewhat the same position in contemporary Protestant thinking that Einstein* has in science: Barth's complex system of thought is fully appreciated only by the highbrows, but, like Einstein's, his influence is wide and deep. When the Christian Century began a series of articles by theologians on "How My Mind Has Changed in the Past Decade," it led off with the contribution of 62-year-old Karl Barth...
...shabby living room of Kung Teh-pai, editor of Nanking's National Salvation Daily (circ. 15,000). Without a word, stubby, rugged Editor Kung, who has well earned his reputation as China's most outspoken editor, reached for his hat. After 25 years of writing what he thought - and eight previous arrests - Kung knew what to expect. He told his wife: "You can reach me at the prison." The day before, Kung had written a long, angry editorial accusing retired President Chiang Kai-shek of "manipulating" the Chinese government from "behind the screen." Unless Chiang "goes abroad," wrote...
...from the plate were just preliminaries. One Rickey innovation this year was the batting tee (see cut)-designed not so much to teach hitters how to hit as to supply figures for Rickey's brain-trusters. By adjusting the tee to every position in the strike zone, they thought they could tell who was standing and swinging properly and who needed special tutoring...