Word: patient
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...matter of fact, these dog fanciers are a pretty shifty breed, tall, gaunt folks with an option on half the unborn thoroughbred pups in North America. But the dogs themselves are a pleasant, patient lot who accept graciously some small attention and stand stoically as their masters brush, comb, chalk them, or hack away at their toenails...
...mild political schizophrenia, unhappily trapped between their own ideas and loyalty to the Administration. The Senate was heading in two directions at once-one committee was investigating the cause of high prices and another the cause of falling prices. Meanwhile, except for a few aching spots here & there, the patient seemed to be generally enjoying the situation. Prices were lower than they had been for months, and a man with a job could buy a steak again, and an egg for his beer if he liked it that...
...bulk of this sum goes toward perfecting a gadget which promises to do away with the cumbersome iron lung. The new device, developed by Dr. James L. Whittenberger, assistant professor of Physiology, keeps a patient with paralyzed lungs breathing by stimulating certain parts of his brain with electricity...
Over $5,000 of the gift will be used to develop a technique of detecting polio by measuring the electricity in a patient's muscles. Dr. Robert S. Schwab '26, instructor in Neurology, and Dr. Arthur L. Watkins '31, associate in Medicine, are heading the project...
...Jerry-built thrills are saved for the last few minutes of the picture where they are rapidly stacked one on another until everyone is exhausted. When the rubble is cleared away, Meredith decides to stick to his job even though he had been blamed for letting his dangerous patient run loose. What's more, he realizes that his wife is "all he has" and somehow finds his own case cured. Mixed up in the end of the film is the implication that Meredith's own affair blinded him to the condition of his patient which ended in tragedy...