Word: patient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Then & there Harry Hopkins, cool and careful, took command of the situation. He met this attack on his weakest point with a drawling, good-humored retreat into modesty and sincerity, a patient implication that he knew this was a political trial. He let go several disarming bursts of frankness, several amusing lapses into sturdy slang. Said he: "If any one has had intimate experience with business in the last six years, it is I. I have bought and sold millions and millions of goods. I have negotiated with businessmen on hundreds and thousands of deals. I have always had employes...
...cost-per-student of each department in the university. He said that in his business, when a department was found inefficient, it was discontinued. Said he, "I want to know if there is a cancerous growth, and if there is, I want to cure it or kill the patient." He said he would send his company's comptroller to help President Dykstra work out the figures...
...four years ago, when Conductor Stock left his place among the orchestra's viola players to succeed Thomas as the Chicago Symphony's head man, Chicago concertgoers were skeptical. During his first year Chicago newspapers printed scathing articles about the need for a more eminent conductor. But patient, plodding Stock stuck to his guns. In the many seasons since then he has made himself a reputation as one of the topflight U. S. conductors. Genial Frederick Stock prefers, and conducts best, the works of the German romantics, but he gives his audience a more varied and balanced musical...
...waiter, whose patient pencil had been long poised, could not smooth over this atrocity. Generations of Copley breeding fell from him; he staggered back as if the aunt had bitten him in the nose and blurted out violently...
Calling all alcoholism "a disease", Bloomberg says benzedrine removes the craving for alcohol by giving the patient the effect he desires without being as harmful as alcohol. He warns, however, that its uses can be dangerous and that it should be administered only under a physician's supervision...