Word: effective
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TIME, March 9). In a land where millions are illiterate and hard pressed, where autocratic rule suppresses opposition and corruption is widespread, and where the long-term benefits of invested oil royalties are insufficiently visible, Communist lies and half truths so powerfully spread were bound to have an unsettling effect. After holding a special closed session to discuss the Soviet offensive, 48 of Iran's 60 Senators trooped to the Shah's marble palace in Teheran to declare themselves "greatly exercised over the viperous attacks against Your Majesty...
...have been in mental hospitals for a long time usually do not want them home, says Charles L. Rose in Mental Hygiene. On the social service staff of the VA Hospital in Bedford, Mass., Rose found from a survey that many relatives do not expect the hospital to effect a cure and really do not want it to-they regard it as a place of detention, not healing. They are more comfortable feeling that the case is hopeless: if the patient never improves, he can never be sent home where "there is no room" and the family's ranks...
These amounts, Dr. Wynder conceded, are not enough to explain the recent startling increase in lung cancer. So, he argued, either there are other cancer-causing substances still undetected, or there is something that may seem innocent by itself but increases the effect of these cancer-stimulating factors. Laboratory research is now aimed at reducing the tar's content of polycyclic hydrocarbons, either by achieving more complete combustion or by adding a catalyst to the tobacco...
...habit of bundling up a feverish child in flannel pajamas under heavy blankets in an overheated room to make him "sweat it out" is also bad, Dr. Done suggests. It makes no sense when anti-fever drugs are being given, because their effect is to promote heat loss-which the bundling prevents. A moderate room temperature and light covering that allows the heat to escape are better. Often it is equally important and more effective to make sure that the feverish child gets plenty of liquids to make up what he loses by sweating...
...century Archbishop of Canterbury. A doubtful lot, on the face of it, but Maugham has the easy knack of wringing interest out of all of them. Virtually all of his information is from other books (which he freely admits), and he says very little that is original. Yet the effect is that of a good conversationalist quietly voicing some private enthusiasms over some very good, very old brandy. His trick is to talk mostly about people and not too much about his advertised subject. The novels of Germany's Goethe make an occasion to discuss a man of genius...