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...clinics for cerebral palsy and psychiatry, turned Rochester into one of the top medical centers in the nation. Meanwhile, he also found time to study the indispensable role of certain foods, principally liver, in the formation of hemoglobin-a discovery to which thousands of victims of pernicious anemia today owe their lives...
Surely the book by Professor Robinson [The Roosevelt Leadership-April 11] will be condemned by most Americans . . . We Britishers will never forget what we owe to that great...
...level way above what is known as pain or fear." Most affecting of all the letters his mother has collected in this book is the one Kim wrote his sweetheart just before the Nazis executed him in April 1945. Kim, then 21, said: "Promise me-this you owe to everything I have lived for-that never will the thought of me come between you and Life." The hardbought truths of Kim's goodbye are valid for all the world's bereaved next...
...gift from the community, nor is it justified simply because it benefits society. "Academic freedom, in short, belongs to that category of rights called 'natural rights,' and is expressed in custom, not in statute." Plato's Academy "was not founded by the community, nor did it owe its primary allegiance to the community. It was instituted by private persons ... to enable them to pursue the Truth without being servants of an evanescent community. And this idea of intellectual freedom, the freedom of the Academy, has ever since been the model for all men trained in the classical...
...chance on the other, have asked me if the dean's mother knew of this duty, did she have any preconceived idea about it, or were the circumstances such as to make the dean a lucky number. I have told my innocent flock that in any case, we owe to the dean's Godfearing and benign mother the life of this apostle of the unborn babe...