Word: goals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, doctors searching for a safe and effective anesthetic seemed nearer their goal. The new technique, gradually improved over the last several years, is a variation of spinal anesthesia (first used for general surgery at the turn of the century). Doctors describe it, in a jawbreaking phrase, as "heavy nupercaine to produce saddle-block anesthesia." Nupercaine is a cocaine substitute. "Heavy" means that it is loaded with a glucose (sugar) solution to make it heavier than the body's spinal fluid. "Saddle block" aptly describes the area anesthetized (the inner thigh and perineum...
With typical restraint, the doctors concluded: "These results . . . merit further investigation with this type of anesthesia." Last week doctors in Texas, Louisiana, Illinois, Alabama, Missouri, California and elsewhere were working toward the goal of 100,000 successful deliveries: the number many physicians consider essential before they accept a method as "proved...
...Germany, he opened a school in Scotland and one in Wales. Just back in Britain from a fund-raising visit to the U.S., Hahn is now working on plans to start a string of new schools in Germany (one of his old boys has reopened Salem). His formidable goal: 100 schools, a million graduates, in ten years...
...volume of between $150 and $200 million." Many a merchandiser, who regarded Hoving's cold self-confidence as plain conceit, shrugged off this big talk. But last week Hoving, who bought Manhattan's Bonwit Teller two years ago (TIME, June 10, 1946), took another step toward his goal...
...difficulty of tutorial has always been lack of a specific function in each student's case. What would be emphasized in the utopian program as tutorial's own goal is coordination of all the student's scattered courses and reading into a pattern leading somewhere in his own academic field. To help the undergraduate think about where he is heading intellectually, to fit the courses he takes in his field of concentration into a larger idea of the field--these objects only tutorial can achieve...