Word: doctor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then came a desperate week of marching and hiding. There was almost no food. The goat fell sick, and then Marianthi and Papouas fell sick. The doctor said angrily that they had caught a fever from the goat. Papouas was captured by the enemy, and Marianthi, disheartened and dizzy with fever, gave herself...
...Astley-Cock has been, among many things, a Cambridge University athlete, linguist, Shakespearean scholar, psychologist and church organist. At the Trib, where he has worked since 1932, his nominal title is assistant education and religion editor. But he has done his most enduring work as the paper's doctor of philology, in charge of amputating letters from words. One day last week, Astley-Cock's byline heralded the latest additions to the Trib's simplified spelling list-one of the most formidable latitudes of Colonel Robert R. McCormick's strange, solipsist world...
...played before jammed audiences in churches and concert halls of Europe; his recordings are still ranked at the top of their field. He is a musicologist whose edition of Bach's organ works is a standard text; his biography of Bach has never been surpassed. He is a doctor of medicine whose 36 years of selfless pioneering as a missionary to the natives of French Equatorial Africa are a bright highlight in the relations between the white race and the black. He is a philosopher who, like Spengler and Toynbee, has thought deeply about the crisis of Western culture...
...SIAM DOCTOR (255 pp.)-Jacques M. May-Doubleday...
Surgeon May did his persuasive best. But Siam Doctor is no trumpet call to noble deeds; it is largely a winking kaleidoscope of Oriental reminiscences, studded with startling clinical notes. Dr. May found that just as tropical forests outgrow and outbloom Western vegetation, so do some diseases in the tropics flourish with a luxuriance that amounts to melodrama. An ovarian cyst, Annamite-style, has been known to weigh more than the half-starved body in which it grew. Hernias often achieve a size "so gigantic as to have lost all possibilities of residence inside the abdomen...