Word: coping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Major General George Lull added that U.S. physical fitness has actually deteriorated since World War I, largely as a result of poor distribution of medical care; 3) Vice Admiral Ross T. Mclntire requested that the A.M.A. draft a "sound plan for medical care." To cope with this problem, a five-man committee (included: General Lull, Dr. Fishbein) was appointed...
...fresh piece of news set the echoes going again. Last week, through hospital corridors all over the U.S., the news was: penicillin may be effective against late syphilis. Doctors already knew that penicillin was effective against early syphilis (TIME, Oct. 25). But late syphilis is much more difficult to cope with...
Death behind the Door. Deadliest weapon with which U.S. police have to cope is the shotgun: "It seems that nearly every farmhouse in the country has a shotgun behind the kitchen door and these frequently become involved in crimes. . . ." Dr. Snyder debunks some common notions about poisons: arsenic and strychnine, for example, though often used, are very dangerous to a murderer, because their presence in the body can be detected for some time after the murder. Strychnine, one of the surest, quickest killers (sometimes within 15 minutes), can be detected three months after death. One of the hardest poisons...
...furlough just after his wife has had a blessed event. From then on, complications galore set in and every casual visitor to the household becomes involved. Before the evening is over, the apartment is filled with expectants, while an aged and feeble doctor, who steals the show, tries to cope with their difficulties...
Died. Frederic J. Haskin, 71, dean of question& -answer columnists (over 100 newspapers carried his column); of cirrhosis of the liver; in Washington. He started answering questions 28 years ago, boasted that he could cope with anything answerable...