Word: development
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Brain & Heart. The hospital's first surgeon in chief was the late great Harvey Gushing, who immediately began to develop the improvements in technique which made brain surgery a lifesaving, everyday procedure. Working side by side with Gushing was a radiologist. Dr. Merrill Sosman, who pioneered X-ray treatment for pituitary tumors. In 1920 Surgeon Elliott Cutler made a daring attempt at surgery inside the heart, to correct a narrowed mitral valve; it was crude and premature (all but one patient died), but it helped pave the way for one of his pupils, Dwight Emary Harken...
...market, has met its goals and will end "in a matter of months." The only solution for the miners' troubles, said Robert Hendricks, vice president of the Consolidated Mining & Smelting Co. of Canada Ltd., is to boost demand. Said he: "The producers must engage in extensive research to develop important new uses for lead and zinc and to improve the advantages which these metals already have...
...Council agreed to establish a "Dean's discretionary fund" of $500, which would be administered by the deans to aid undergraduate organizations to develop "special and worthwhile projects of a non-political nature." The aid is to be given as a loan, repayable to the fund, and the Council executive committee will be notified of any dispositions...
...Jencks says, the world is irrational, of what use is the constructive mind, save perhaps to depict it, to "breed one work that wakes." Mr. Jencks' fundamental error, I believe, was in allowing an aesthetic criticism of the proundity of Mr. Levin's method of literary analysis to develop into a moral issue denouncing withdrawl into the world of words as a sin of deprivation against mankind. Far from sinning, the men of words produce perhaps one of the greater goods to be found in this world. They create a world of beauty and intensity, to escape from that world...
IRRADIATED COAL DUST is being tried as fuel by Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad. Working to develop atomic locomotive company found that gamma rays can dissolve crushed coal to such fineness that when it is added to diesel oil it burns up completely, increases oil's energy content. Railroad figures atomic coal dust could cut fuel bill by about It a gallon...