Word: betterment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Handling of tissues with fingers cannot be as facile, gentle or safe as handling with properly designed, delicate instruments." A surgeon should spend his life in "a constant search for better instruments until he emerges finally as an artist, not an artisan." Blood transfusion is "essential in certain disorders, and most valuable in preparing the patient for a major ordeal; but its use following a surgical performance is at least suggestive that a more careful technique would have made this unnecessary...
...Colleges and universities have raised their standards, by such experiments as the tutorial system and the junior college are better meeting the needs of individual students...
...approach her central problem-orange juice. First scene, picturing a young mother's desperate attempt, ends with her youngster screaming, the orange juice untouched. Second scene shows a teacher whose timing is expert, ends with smiling Junior drinking it all up. In the third scene the mother, now better informed, also succeeds...
...ceramic art by European invitation toured Denmark, Sweden, Finland, and England, ceramic centres all, and won high praise. No mere praiser of museum pieces, Miss Olmsted is glad that many of he ceramists who enter the show are commercial designers, that the interest the show has inspired has spurred better design in mass production. Her aim: to remove from mantelpiece art the stigma of an inferiority complex...
...hobbies, no outside interests but his work. But Frank Gavin, who was G. N.'s executive V. P., knows all about his road from operations to finance. Wise to what is going on in U. S. railroading, he says the roads had better justify their existence as public servants or else...