Word: extent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...months ending July 31, they had 7,334 admissions as a result of home accidents, more than double the highway figure. Half the victims were under ten. Most dangerous room: the kitchen. ¶ "The physician who sells his testimony to the highest bidder and shades his testimony to the extent that he is paid" should have his license revoked, A.M.A. President Dwight Murray told the American Bar Association. And, he added, so should the lawyer who hired him. ¶ Without formal training, Midwife Josie Sizemore has delivered more than 2,000 babies in Kentucky's mountain counties of Clay...
...Virginia, There Is a Joe Smith" editorials in the U.S. press). Governor "Goodie" Knight choked down his gorge and made the California announcement of 70 votes for Nixon. The nomination, like Ike's, was unanimous-and old Frank Nixon took new heart, began gaining strength to the extent that Richard Nixon returned to San Francisco to deliver his acceptance speech...
...successful offbeat formula for Rinso. At times the determinedly soft-sell ads turn out merely limp. Nevertheless, some of the loudest drumbeaters in U.S. advertising have learned lessons from the velvet-voiced sophisticates. The work of top artists and crack color photographers is being used to a far greater extent than ten years ago-if only to dramatize the why-buy copy underneath. Black, blustering headlines are yielding to airy typography. Clinical claims ("Guard Against Throat-Scratch") are fast disappearing...
...wire to his good personal friend Paul Butler, Stanton backed his staff. "I am shocked by your inflammatory attack," said the CBS chief. "Those who make the news cannot, in a free society, dictate to broadcasters, as part of the free press, to what extent, where, and how they shall cover the news. Television and radio ... are not mere conduits which must carry everything which the newsmaker demands...
...large extent, the machine relies on the talents of the doctor using it. If an inexperienced physician had made the examination, he would have punched fewer keys and been flooded with confusing cards. But, when Paycha's robot doctor was displayed at the World Cybernetics Congress in Namur, Belgium, expert ophthalmologists welcomed it because its memory is infallible. To brief his machine on the cornea, Dr. Paycha fed it a whole textbook plus references to articles in medical journals. Next project: glaucoma and diseases of the iris. Inventor Paycha believes his robot will work for any organ. His ultimate...