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Word: ubi (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...average number given was less than three. All patients left the hospital without sign of rheumatic heart disease except mechanical damage that had already taken place in the heart; 20 have returned to normal activity; one died, from another disease, and one "gained immeasurably." The three doctors concluded that "UBI" (ultraviolet blood irradiation) is safe and may prove, after further tests, to be the best treatment available...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: UBI | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

Some of Swift's best letters and politer verses are included in this volume, and so is the proud Latin epitaph that he wrote for his tomb: ". . . ubi saeva indignatio ulterius cor lacerare nequit; abi viator et imitare si poteris strenuum pro virili libertatis vindicem . . ." W. B. Yeats, nearly 200 years later gave this inscription a great translation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gulliver in Context | 7/5/1948 | See Source »

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