Word: generalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pacific the Army transport General William O. Darby radioed a plea for an iron lung to save John Driskell, 6, son of a sergeant homeward bound from duty in Japan. The Coast Guard cutter Iroquois raced 1,000 miles from Honolulu with a lung; the boy was transferred to the cutter and taken to the hospital in Hawaii...
Haunted by his inability to help that first patient, Dr. Greene decided to give up his general practice and do something for stutterers. In 1916, fortified by six years' postgraduate study in Europe, he opened a clinic in Manhattan for speech defects. It has since become the National Hospital for Speech Disorders, treating as many as 4,000 patients a year (and instructing hundreds of patients' parents...
...library had four big metal chests inside-and an armed guard. Nobody actually expected hijackers, but Yale, egged on by the insurance companies, was taking no chances. The chests held the private papers of James Boswell, biographer of Samuel Johnson and pertinacious observer of the 18th Century in general...
There was nothing very unusual about this year's summer school at Harvard. The schoolmarms in gingham were there. Young men in slacks lounged in gate ways; bookworms burrowed in the Widener stacks. It seemed as if only the stu dents in an advanced seminar called "Science and General Education at the College Level" had anything new to talk about. Their subject: a new professor...
...with three other professors, each with his own ideas on teaching science to the layman. Conant's device is to use a sort of case method. If pupils can understand how science solved specific problems in the past, he thinks, they will soon understand the scientific method in general...