Word: clefts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only overt illness or accident, but the intangible factor of emotional stress suffered by a woman between the eighth and twelfth weeks of pregnancy may be a precipitating factor in causing harelip and cleft-palate defects, two New Jersey researchers report in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. Drs. Lyon P. Strean and Lyndon A. Peer studied 228 cases of cleft palate at Newark's Hospital of St. Barnabas, 40% among first-born children. Going back over the mothers' experiences during the critical weeks of pregnancy-when the two halves of the upper jaw normally fuse in the palatal arch...
...common-sense science of the Victorian Age, the public thinks of scientists as dangerous warlocks. "The popular picture of the scientist," says Bronowski, "lends itself to the basic totalitarian tricks which exploit the insecurity of the ignorant: an awe of the specialist, a hidden hatred of him, and a cleft between his way of thinking and theirs...
...keeps in touch with all cases, to be sure that "people are not left out on a limb." As a barometer of the nation's health, the biggest volume of letters was received after programs dealing with 1) deafness, 2) heart surgery, 3) corneal transplantation, and 4) cleft palate...
...market, the Uris brothers last month installed a bleak bronze by Sculptor Henry Moore in the stark, cavernous lobby of a building they had erected on the site of the old Ritz-Carlton Hotel. The bronze was Moore's controversial King and Queen (TIME. March i), a cleft-headed, paper-thin pair of half-humans on a bench. After the superintendent reported that 75% of the tenants were saying unkind things about it, the Uris brothers resignedly had the bronze hauled back to the dealer. "I still think it's lovely," Percy Uris explained last week, "but after...
Schizophrenia means "cleft mind"-in other words, to be of two minds. Who, including your faceless reviewer, isn't? . . . "Science fiction may"-note the on-the-one-hand indecision-"be bad science and worse fiction," says he; yet our writers include neurologists, astronomers, engineers, physicists, chemists, etc., and many superb stories that have appeared in Galaxy rate as masterpieces...