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Although Dr. Frankl's theory was already formulated before he was sent to Auschwitz in 1944, his experiences in the concentration camps provided empirical confirmation for it. He himself, stricken with typhus fever attacks, strove to keep awake and alive by scribbling notes on scraps of paper in an attempt to rewrite the confiscated manuscript of his book. The Doctor and the Soul. "Only after my theory had undergone the acid test of the concentration camp did I feel it legitimate to propound an approach which constituted such a blow into the prevalent nihilism and fatalism. Meaning orientation keeps...
...year the largest diamond was discovered, yellow fever broke out in New Orleans, and George Bernard Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession was banned from Broadway. But in the inbred lore of baseball, 1905 will always be the year in which Manager Bill Armour of the Detroit Tigers, on a sultry afternoon in August, beckoned to a gawky, 18-year-old rookie who had arrived just the day before from Augusta, Ga. "Hey, Cobb," he shouted, "look alive, and start warming up. You take Dick Cooley's place in centerfield today...
...result, Britain, living beyond its means, has spent gold from its reserves to cover the gap five months in a row (at a time of the year when Britain is usually piling up gold). In world money marts, where a fraction of a cent can mean a fever crisis, the pound sterling's value has dropped from par $2.80 to $2.78 11/25, lowest point in four years. At home, the British worker's average wage has risen more than 4% in the past twelve months, while the nation's industrial output has barely moved...
...under another name), a whopping intramuscular shot of penicillin (1.2 million units, or at least three times what most doctors would have prescribed for an otherwise healthy adult). She also gave him an extra dose of the corticosteroids he regularly takes to compensate for his longstanding adrenal insufficiency. The fever rose to a high of 101.6° at 7 in the morning. New York Surgeon Preston Wade, who had been called in several times by Dr. Travell for consultation on the back injury, flew in to help decide whether the virus had affected Kennedy's ailing back. Press Secretary...
...Fever Pitch, by David Caute. For obvious reasons, British writers are tops when it conies to describing disintegrating empires, in this case, Africa...