Word: painful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then Dr. Duncan tried Waksman's supposedly dangerous drug on the patient. Within a few hours the infection was licked, and a few days later the fat farmer walked out, pain-free for the first time in years. Says Dr. Duncan: "There may not be many cases like this, but if we can save only one or two patients a year with a drug like neomycin, that drug has justified its existence...
...Copy. When Commodore Matthew Perry and his "black boats" opened up Japan to the Western world in 1854, Dr. Hepburn heard a special call for his services which he could not refuse. The Presbyterians wanted to send a missionary, but the Japanese forbade conversion to Christianity on pain of death. A medical missionary was the answer; Dr.Hepburn set sail with his wife in 1859, to become one of the first Protestant missionaries to Japan...
...chief of the Army Service Forces, General Brehon Burke Somervell handled the world's biggest supply problem, and got a bellyful of civilian gibes at Army red tape. Last week Old Soldier Somervell, now president of Koppers Co., told the Baltimore Association of Commerce of another kind of pain: he was fed up with the red tape and regulations which the Government has loaded onto businessmen...
...History is consequently a tragedy in which we are all involved, whose keynote is anxiety and frustration, not progress and fulfillment. Nothing exists in history to assure us that the great moral dilemmas can be resolved without pain...
...hear." The London firm of Whittaker, Treacher & Co. thought so too. Barely two years later, when Cincinnatians were still guffawing every time they passed the crazy shell known as "Trollope's Folly," a book appeared that roused one of the loudest howls of pain and outrage ever heard in the Midwest...