Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Affirmation of the authority of the Secretary of Defense to delegate his functions as he sees fit, to insure flexible administration, capable of decentralization...
Adjustable Wagon. Omaha's American Road Equipment Co. announced an adjustable wagon to fit all farm chores, e.g., a narrow tread for harvesting corn, a wide tread for haying, and different heights for mechanical attachments. Price...
...field of fertility control. "It seems likely," said Dr. Henshaw, "that within a matter of months, or a few years at the most, pills, teas, inoculation, etc. of various forms will be available for use in a variety of ways. The prospects are that fertility-control methods to fit every need and every purse will become available. Indeed, it seems likely that sex and reproduction will in reality become effectively separated." ¶Because normal liver tissue seemed sensitive to X rays, doctors hesitated to treat liver cancer with radiation, and such cases were considered hopeless. At Manhattan's Memorial...
...London area, he said. Before they bought a new plug for their sewing machine, Mrs. Farmer had to decide which room to put it in. Now, if that room is cold, he said, "she either freezes or doesn't sew, because the plug won't fit into any other socket...
...Louis H. Bauer, president of the American Medical Association, was downcast. Of some 4,000 internists who traveled to the Atlantic City convention of the American College of Physicians last week, only 75 saw fit to attend a panel discussion on "The Internist's Relation to Citizenship." Dr. Bauer, moderator of the discussion, surveyed the sparse audience and reflected gloomily: "Medicine is no longer a purely scientific problem. It has social and economic factors. Doctors should take an interest in those phases as well as the scientific ones ... If [a] program sounds anything like talk about medical economics, they...