Word: functionally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hardening of the arteries, there may be some connection to pituitary and adrenal function, but there is no clear evidence that ACTH therapy, as it is administered, either produces or aggravates the condition. I call this error to your attention because it would be a pity if patients receiving ACTH were unnecessarily frightened by your report...
Spider & Snake. By stimulating the adrenal glands during a crisis, the hormone injections serve to forestall most of the early complications (shock, pain, fever, infection, impairment of kidney function, loss of body fluids) which make burns most dangerous. As the cure progresses, the increased glandular activity helps still further by sustaining appetite and promoting new skin growth. Since burns heal in a relatively short time, the burn victim need not worry about the bad side effects (excessive hair growth, face swelling, skin streaking, etc.) that often follow long-sustained dosages of the drug...
Joan Projansky herself is a friendly, good-natured woman. But her function was clear as soon as she took office this fall. The Radcliffe News reported factually: "Miss Joan Projansky, Radcliffe '49, has been appointed Director of the Publicity Office, succeeding Miss Barbara Norton. In her new position, Miss Projansky will direct all releases and information that go to the public and students must check with her office before giving their name or picture to be used in a newspaper or magazine...
...needed. The armed forces were burdened with an outsize crop of curbstone economists and amateur publicists who liked to talk about "what the economy will stand" and "what public opinion will approve," without knowing any of the answers. In doing so, they had been diverted from their prime function of telling the country what it needed to survive. Right after Korea, pound-foolish Louis Johnson had repentantly told the Joint Chiefs to shoot the works. Then George Marshall, taking over in September in the optimistic days of the Korean war, had ordered a careful re-sighting on all grand plans...
...Arthur Smithies, professor of Economics, insisted that creating a better world and not pure knowledge, must be the sole end of scholarship; arguing that statistics on social ills will not cure the ills, Smithies said, "I, don't see how a society that knows too much about itself can function well...