Word: approach
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...medical schools, 43 are supported solely (and the rest partly) by private funds and student fees. Endowment income has dropped sharply, because of falling interest rates, and so have gifts. Though medical students pay the highest professional tuition fees in the nation, their fees do not approach the cost of their education-about $1,200 a year for each student. Foundations, from which medical schools used to get much of their support, now supply less than $4,000,000 a year for all purposes, including research (the schools cost some $25,000,000 to run). Said the college presidents: medical...
...great open spaces will help aviation's most critical ill (congestion around busy airports, especially in thick weather) by spacing arriving planes. Two different methods are being tested to get them safely down out of the crowded air. One method: GCA (Ground Controlled Approach) watches the plane with radar while operators on the ground "talk" it down through the soup. The other: ILS (Instrument Landing System) guides the plane down a slanting radio beam...
This may or may not have surprised Clark Gable. Possibly moved to speak by the approach of income-tax day, the Grand Old Man of handsome young men declared that any year he cleared more than $1,000 he felt lucky. He understood that he was getting $6,000 a week at the moment, but: "A single man pays out almost 90% of it for taxes. . . . My agent gets 10 . . . my business manager. . . ." He wasn't complaining, understand-"but people have the wrong idea about movie salaries...
...like his Roméo et Juliette broadcasts, he sometimes works over singers and orchestra from 2 p.m. until midnight. Afterwards he takes home recordings of the rehearsal, to check the orchestral balance. He allows radio engineers no easy tricks either. In La Traviata, a chorus is supposed to approach from afar. A simple way to get the radio effect was to have the chorus stand still and sing with increasing volume; Toscanini insisted that the chorus go off stage, approach gradually...
...sealed at intervals. Mother snips off a piece of tubing with sterile scissors, fills it, fits a sterilized nylon crown and rubber nipple over the open end, and squeezes out the air. The baby feeds with little effort: the milk flows easily. Nurse Allen thinks it is "the nearest approach to breast feeding...