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Word: admit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Commander D. J. Giorgio and Lieut. J. G. Morrow, anesthesiologists at Bethesda Naval Medical Center, have worked out a stratagem for soothing young surgical patients. Their device: a plastic space-chief helmet with a tube to admit oxygen and cyclopropane gas. After the space chief fogs off, he gets ether like ordinary mortals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Capsules, Jan. 25, 1954 | 1/25/1954 | See Source »

CIGARETTE sales have been hit harder than tobaccomen like to admit. In 1953 consumption dropped 2%, the first dip in 21 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Jan. 25, 1954 | 1/25/1954 | See Source »

...undeniable that there has been a vast improvement in Harvard's housing for undergraduates," he said. The Houses "are at present overcrowded," however, and "tremendous pressures to admit more students are certain soon to break over us as a result of increased population...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pusey Scores Overcrowding In the Houses | 1/20/1954 | See Source »

...regret, only alienated a few; it intrigues most. The chief device employed by the CRIMSON to further its causes is the non-recognition of fair criticism, as well as of letters to the editors, unless they coincide with the doctrines of CRIMSONism." Concerning McCarthy, its stand refuses to admit of any honesty or sincerity on the part of the accused, assuming that he is somewhat of a glorious revolutionist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Mail | 1/20/1954 | See Source »

...done to reduce the ravages of stress? There is no single rule, for as Psychiatrist Douglas R. MacCalman points out, some men thrive on distractions and dangers that would send others to hospital beds. Suggested the bishop of Manchester: "The church is meant to supply, though I freely admit it does not always do so, one of those deficiencies of modern life which . . . cause stress and anxiety . . . Within the family life of the Christian Church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Stree & Strain | 1/18/1954 | See Source »

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