Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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George Packer Berry, Dean of the Harvard Medical School, has pointed out that "the period from 1910 to 1950 is referred to so often as the 'golden age of medicine' that I sometimes wonder if we have forgotten that all that glitters is not gold." The inundation of a teaching programs by a tidal wave of new facts tends to submerge the medical student and to obscure for him the principles of medical science...
...chain and a red bow tie, notably unsuitable for corpse-pointing, askew under his chin. It will take many sessions of court and a multitude of distractions to erase the first brilliantly colored picture flashed on the big white screen in the darkened courtroom at that dreadful matinee. No wonder Dr. Sam cried and would not look. She was beautiful. So lovely, and so bruised. So gentle looking with her eyes closed, sleeping under the vermilion gashes...
...strange. No picture ever printed of Marilyn Sheppard, of the many taken when she was smiling and wide-eyed and alive, has shown her to be as lovely as she was in death-discolored and slashed and broken. No wonder at all that Dr. Sam cried. He could remember well, without looking. Her face was oval, her skin the very fair kind with fine pores. Where there were no wounds, it had a peach-like tint, faintly damp with the dewiness of the newly dead...
...Airless Wonder. As a mouse teamed up with industry's elephants, National Research has done well because President Morse, 43, is a rare combination of scientist and businessman. An M.I.T. graduate ('33) who worked for Eastman Kodak until he decided that he could do better on his own, Morse started out with the basic idea that high-vacuum (i.e., removing all the air) techniques could be useful to U.S. business. He and his staff developed machines efficient enough to suck all but a cupful of air out of an area as big as Chicago's Union Station...
...July 4, 1941 was not her son. True, Philippe grew up skinny and Paul plump: they were "as different as a cock from a rabbit." When the boys were six, Mrs. Joye met little Ernstli, a frail youngster who looked so much like Philippe that she began to wonder. She questioned Ernstli's mother, learned that he had been born at the same hospital, on the same day, at roughly the same time as Paul and Philippe. Scientific tests eventually showed that Ernstli was Philippe's identical twin and that Paul, switched at birth by mistake...