Word: veterinarian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most provocative news of medical needlework came from the congress' French president, Dr. Roger de la Füye: "I affirm that acupuncture, professionally administered the evening or morning before a sporting match, will increase the performance of a champion. These same punctures, administered by a veterinarian acupuncturist to a horse 20 minutes before the race, are capable of 'doping' sprinters, trotters or jumpers in a clean and legal manner, and giving them a clear advantage...
This year Whiskers grew sick and feeble. Last week a veterinarian discovered that he had a brain tumor and put him out of his misery with a lethal injection of a barbiturate. In their sorrow, the men of Hook & Ladder Company No. 1 experienced something almost like relief. Whiskers had never learned to get back down ladders. He had answered 3,000 alarms, had climbed on an average of twice at each fire, had been cornered in the smoke, rescued against his will, and had been lugged back down to the street-all 60 wriggling pounds of him-on each...
...Alice Hammerstein, 30, daughter of Musical Comedy Writer Oscar Hammerstein II, was busy writing the lyrics for a musical which will be produced next year. Her father was "very pleased," she said. "He has always wanted anything that will make me happy. Except when I wanted to be a veterinarian. He couldn't understand that...
...Professional Touch. In Kollum, The Netherlands, after judges at a jumping contest for horses had disqualified all entrants because of their poor showing, Veterinarian Jan Reinders bet the judges he could do better, went the full course under his own power...
...richest dog in the world." But, while Miss Wendel left an estate of $40 million, her will made no mention of Tobey. Two years later, the executors of the estate decided that Tobey, having reached a sickly and snappish nine years, should end his life painlessly at the veterinarian...