Word: walke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...housepainter named John Politis, 34, was doing all right until he met a girl named Toga. Now he would never walk again without crutches. He would never talk again, either...
...chronicles, and sometimes edging over into a bland and amusing parody of them. The story concerns an extraordinary occurrence in the town of Castel Rodriguez: a girl named Catalina Perez, comely, virtuous and 16 years old, who has been trampled by a bull and crippled so that she can walk only with a crutch, reports that the Virgin Mary appeared to her and told her that to be healed she must go to "the son of Juan Suarez de Valero who has best served...
...Every time I tried to walk, I experienced a sharp pain in my back. The Hygiene Department diagnosed my trouble as a muscle sprain and recommended and provided massage. When the massage had no effect, I went to my own doctor. He took one brief look at my back--unaccompanied by X-ray or apparatus--and announced that I had dislocated a bone in my back. Putting it back in place was a relatively simple operation and eliminated the pain. He was amazed that any doctor could have examined me and failed to see what was wrong...
...architects have designed the buildings in keeping with Harvard's three centuries of construction by minimizing the massive effect such a large group of houses is apt to create. "When you walk through the Yard," the architects point out, "you are not struck by the number of buildings so much as by the trees the paths, and the people. In the same way, the Houses by the river are spread out so that they never...
...colleges, such as some states-notably California-have already set up. He would authorize them to grant a new degree of B.G.S. (Bachelor of General Studies)-"not a B.A.," says Conant, "but something that sounds just as near like it as you can come." Then, Conant thinks, only the walk-a-little-faster group, those with genuine aptitude for the professions, will be inclined to attend a university. On this count, Conant finds himself squarely against the President's Commission on Higher Education, which would almost double the number of university students by 1960 ("much too ambitious...