Word: dosing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There is nothing wrong with our economy that a good dose of confidence won't cure," declared Vice President Richard Nixon at a Republican Lincoln Day rally in Phoenix, Ariz. "The battle cry of the Administration's opponents is obviously going to be 'Depression is just around the corner.' Some are urging us to go back to the multibillion-dollar leaf-raking boondoggling which failed so miserably in the 1930s." If the Democrats are "betting on depression," said he, the Republicans are "betting on prosperity...
Died. Dr. Douglas McGlashan Kelley, 45, dynamic, imaginative professor of criminology at the University of California, chief psychiatrist during the Nazi war crimes trial: by his own hand (a dose of potassium cyanide); in Berkeley. Calif. Psychiatrist Kelley (then a U.S. Army lieutenant colonel) interviewed the 22 top-ranking Nazis before the trial, authored (in 1947) a controversial study of his findings (22 Cells in Nuremberg...
...such far-reaching change as a general staff system could and should come only after the fullest possible debate-and that debate is just now starting in earnest. To be carefully weighed is the possibility that the conversion, in Sputnik's day, would be too strong a dose of medicine, might do the patient more harm than good. Yet the proponents of the general staff system argue that the U.S. can afford no less at a time when the technology of war and weapons has so plainly outraced the military organization that supports...
First to Break. To a second group of students Drs. Bliss and Clark gave minute doses of LSD-25, a drug known to produce schizophrenia-like symptoms. When the subjects were rested, it had no effect; after 48 sleepless hours, the same dose brought on severe hallucinations...
Bottle Babies? Manhattan's Dr. Harry Bakwin, past president of the American Academy of Pediatrics, started the ruckus over whisky when he told a Washington medical meeting that 15 drops make an acceptable sedative for a sleepless child.* Other pediatricians doubted that so minute a dose would have any detectable effect, though some said they might give it to a baby with colic if the family had no other sedative in the house. The Rev. Dr. Albert P. Shirkey of Washington's Mount Vernon Place Methodist Church was outraged. "I feel it was a terrible blunder to prescribe...