Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...receiving fresh blood, it will glow yellow green. Then it is safe to tuck the gut back in place, or stimulate circulation in the leg. But if the blood supply is choked, the limb or hernia remains dark, must be amputated at once. This test, the doctors said, should avoid unnecessary surgery, thus reduce the 50% mortality rate for strangulated hernia resections...
John Ballantine '42 contributes a boldly reasoned article, amply supported with facts, on the post-war industrial situation, and the adjustments that will be necessary to avoid economic collapse. Perhaps the tritest of the articles is the opening one by Editor Irwin Ross '40, who naively thinks that an allied declaration of the rights of man would win the Burmese knife-slingers over to our side...
Politesse. In Chicago, Gordon Sheehe (of Northwestern University's famed Traffic Safety Institute), mindful of the strain of wartime living, offered a new precept for traffic cops: "Officers must learn to disregard remarks made by the motorist due to his upset condition, must avoid argument and keep their tempers under control...
...exposure of prostitution of the patent laws . . . ever seen." Yet it was also, perhaps, a perfectly legal use of the monopoly that a patent grants to its owner. It floodlights the paradox of patent protection v. restraint of trade-and the lengths to which large corporations will go to avoid lawsuits and "destructive" competition...
...same as in World War I: wrangles over Government v. private building, permanent houses v. temporary, renting v. home ownership. Sixteen different Government housing agencies have thoroughly messed up the job. A new, effectively remodeled National Housing Agency has now been created to coordinate all housing efforts. To avoid leaving war plant workers high & dry after the war, most Government houses (cost about $3,500) will be rented to their occupants...