Word: veterinarian
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
However, it is only partly because warm puppies-along with cows, horses, pigs, cats and the rest of the animal kingdom-figure as his main characters that James Herriot's memoirs qualify admirably. Dr. Herriot is a country veterinarian who has practiced in the Yorkshire dales of northern England for more than three decades, and he clearly and fondly knows the two-footed creatures on his rounds as well as the fourfooted. The result is a collection of word pictures of rural Britain in the 1930s, when the author was starting his career. Like Norman Rockwell sickroom paintings...
Even the American penchant for adopting pets can prove painful: the soldiers must either go through laborious paper work to bring their dogs home, find someone to keep them or have a veterinarian dispose of them. U.S. military authorities warn against abandoning the animals...
...that Americans have espoused planned parenthood, shouldn't their pets also? An article in the current Science and Public Affairs, a respected scientific magazine, asks that question in all seriousness. The answer is yes, according to the authors, Chemist Carl Djerassi, Veterinarian Wolfgang Jochle and Andrew Israel, a medical student. The first two are also top executives at Syntex, a firm that produces contraceptive pills...
...rough wood shingled, in a kosher neighborhood which was able to fight the building with principle but not with capital. It is an obscene building, obscene in its newness, obscene because even in its newness and wealth, it brought disgrace to the slum neighborhood. Inside, it smelled like a veterinarian...
Mike Andrew '68, a professor at the University of New Hampshire and one of the highest-rated players in New England, has coached the team for the last three years. Andrew also does most of the shoeing and serves as the veterinarian...