Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...months we have been working on plans to find the answer for hundreds of readers in Hawaii and hundreds of service men all over the Pacific who have been asking and urging us to get TIME to them faster. For example...
...tall, twinkly, immensely popular physician with a hard-boiled attitude toward illness - last week wrote a prescription for one of the prime problems of wartime medicine, too few doctors with too many civilian patients. The prescription offered by Dr. Alvarez in the A.M. A. Journal: dispose of patients faster by abler diagnosis. Its two chief ingredients: 1) distinguish between the really sick and the chronic complainers; 2) use a few. shrewd questions, which often yield a better diagnosis than elaborate laboratory tests...
...after C.A.C. straightened him out, he promptly resumed his feud, demanded that C.A.C. squeeze more out of debtors, pay off faster...
...Best emergency exit: a fire hose, because it offers a surer grip than a rope. Hose or rope should be descended slowly. Wait until the feet are in the water before letting go: distance is easy to misjudge under stress. Never go over the lee side: ships drift downwind faster than a man can swim; loose gear floats close to the ship on the lee side...
...about his stepdaughter's illness and death), he had diarrhea and no appetite, and he was wakened in the night by acid juices escaping from his stomach. Though Tom did not want food when he was worried, the doctors found that, if he ate, his digestion rate was faster than normal. Hence they conclude that not the stomach, but the emotions determine appetite. They write: "What is known about the length of time food remains in the stomach must be re-evaluated in the light of the profound alterations which accompany altered emotional states...