Word: classes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University of Brazil's Medical School, where Physician de Barros got his degree in 1923, he handed out diplomas to the graduating class. He strode off to inspect the Centro Adhemar de Barros, a free clinic which he supports; lunched with 200 taxi drivers, dined with Benedito Valladares, chief of President Dutra's copa e cozinha (pantry and kitchen) cabinet. At a churrasco (gaucho barbecue) in the working-class district of Penha, someone threw an egg, spattering yolk over Adhemar's shirt. Snorted Adhemar: "A Communist." He called twice on Dutra, attended Mass, visited headquarters...
Finally, after two failures at examinations, he got into the military college at Sandhurst. He passed out proudly, eighth in a class of 150. Sent to Bangalore, in southern India, Churchill became a brilliant polo player, and discovered books-Plato, Aristotle, Gibbon, Macaulay, Schopenhauer; he made an intense study of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. When nobody at the Bangalore garrison could tell him what the word "ethics" meant, he began to read in search of answers. It was a long quest, for Churchill was to spend his life in politics and to learn with his friend John Morley that...