Word: classes
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...with shining morn ing face, romped across the Palace grounds, across one public street, to school. On rainy days he will ride-in a red lacquered, charcoal-burning car. After six years, a special educational institution will be built around Akihito, and professors will lecture a one-man class on The Art of Becoming an Emperor...
...Negro doctors know much about tuberculosis, few white doctors dare to operate on their "massively" infected Negro patients. Outstanding Negro thoracic surgeon in the U. S. is young, gentle Frederick Douglass Stubbs of Philadelphia. Son of a well-known doctor, graduate of Dartmouth, a leader of his class in Harvard Medical School, Dr. Stubbs spends most of his time at dingy Frederick Douglass Hospital. Here he looks after a ward of some 25 patients with advanced tuberculosis, whose lungs he deflates and drains...
...high-minded Dentists Chapin Aaron Harris and Horace Henry Hayden opened the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, first in the world. In the freshman class were five students, their only qualifications reading & writing, tough biceps. After a four-month course, the boys went out into the world to battle brawny patients, crazy with pain. "Be pitiless," counseled Dr. Harris. "As the patient is very apt to catch the hand of the operator, he must have both hands ready and, when one is pulled away, seize the instrument with the other and so go on until the operation is complete...
...Deal. As intricate as Floyd Odlum's shrewd mind was the deal that he worked out. It offered an inducement for each company and for every class of stockholder of each. To Curtiss-Wright it meant getting rid of its troublesome "A" stock-by exchanging each share of "A" for ¼ share of a new 5% $50 cumulative preferred plus 1.8 shares of common, or (if "A" stockholders prefer) for ½ share of new preferred and 1/5 of a share of common. To "A" stockholders it meant an assured dividend and preferred position in liquidation (neither of which they...
...United Artists). To hear a movie called a "class picture" sends a chill down the hardened cinemaddict's spine. "Class picture" is a trade term for films with a better than average cast, a resolutely esthetic director, and uplift. They are aimed at people who want ideas with their entertainment. Often they are made from second-rate novels with a purpose. Usually they are bores, frequently they are flops. At their best, class pictures can be as good as We Are Not Alone, which Paul Muni and Flora Robson strove (in vain) to bring to life. Or they...