Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...centers. . . . There are no supermen, all-wise, to solve these problems for us. [But] an informed and understanding people will [not] be taken in by sweet talk, or scared by shadows, or stumble-or be pushed-into some desperate finality. There is no substitute, no good substitute, for the common-sense judgment of a whole people...
...Essentially, it is a tube containing a small lancet with a special biting end ; with it he hoped to cut out the scar tissue that forms on the heart valves of many rheumatic fever victims, and blocks their action. Then he developed a way of using procaine (local anesthetic common in dentistry) to control the violent, often fatal spasms that usually plague surgeons who have the courage to operate on the heart. Dr. Smithy was ready for his first operation on a human being when Betty Lee reached Charleston's Roper Hospital...
...Chances. Dr. Smithy's operation on Betty Lee was daring. Surgical annals record only twelve operations on the heart's valves; only two patients lived. Since 1928, no other such operations have been recorded. The type of heart damage Betty Lee suffered is the most common resulting from rheumatic fever, which causes 90% of all heart disease in children, 40% of heart disease at all ages...
Since 1929, stubborn-jawed Dr. Claude Heman Barlow has been studying bilharziasis, a disease of the bladder caused by snail-borne parasites common in Egypt. In 1944, he infected himself with the parasites (TIME, Dec. 6, 1946). The experiment cost him his own health, but it gave science some valuable clues for controlling the disease. This week Dr. Barlow, 71, received the Medal of Merit from President Truman...
...opened). The second act finds Ellen sitting beside the boy in the Sunday sunshine; she discovers that Peter Grimes has already cuffed and bruised him. This is Britten at his musical trickiest: as she sings to the boy, a church choir nearby is chanting words from the Book of Common Prayer; first the soprano's voice, then the choir, fades in & out like music in a radio play. The chorus angrily follows Peter and the boy to his hut atop a cliff...