Word: careful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...left Rio, Dutra found himself a full general when he returned. Under a new military law, he was entitled to the promotion because of his World War II service as Minister of War, but had modestly refrained from signing his own promotion papers. Acting President Nereu Ramos took care of that chore in his chief's absence...
Found: $250,000. John Jacobs' first reform was to throw out thousands of obsolete books that were jamming his shelves (sample: a 1915 pamphlet on The Care of Teeth), and he soon had gotten rid of more books than he added. He streamlined every branch, put a new microfilm filing system into the main building, built new reading rooms, demanded-and got-a tripled library budget. He found a deposit of $250,000 that had been willed to the library and never used. He built two new branch libraries, one of them the first to be built...
...have shorter lives. The mortality rate of specialists is 30% lower than theirs, two Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. statisticians reported last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Looking for reasons, the statisticians guessed that specialists make more money, can afford longer vacations and get better medical care...
Angrily, the Russians protested that their own doctor would take care of the woman, that they needed no outside help. Police summoned an ambulance anyway. There was another brief scuffle, when police seized a letter written by Mrs. Kosenkina to a friend in Moscow. (The letter was returned to consular officials...
...survey, reported in the magazine Diseases of the Nervous System, three members of the Chicago Psychiatric Institute made an intensive study of 100 people who lived after trying to kill themselves. Of the 100 cases, 40 were sent to mental hospitals, another 26 needed psychiatric care...