Word: harkening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...treatment for pituitary tumors. In 1920 Surgeon Elliott Cutler made a daring attempt at surgery inside the heart, to correct a narrowed mitral valve; it was crude and premature (all but one patient died), but it helped pave the way for one of his pupils, Dwight Emary Harken. In 1948 Dr. Harken was one of three surgeons who, independently and almost simultaneously, began to operate with increasing success and decreasing risk to widen mitral valves scarred and narrowed by rheumatic fever...
...continually pushing back medical frontiers, in many cases along the lines sketched out by the great men of its early days. Endocrinologist George W. Thorn and colleagues are still exploring the adrenals, gradually outlining the role of a recently discovered and potent but little-understood hormone, aldosterone. Dr. Harken is working with famed Scientist Vannevar Bush on plastic valves which may actually replace the aortic valve in patients with some kinds of heart damage...
...other speakers at the Symposium, which was moderated by Charles D. Post, were Henry C. Cassidy, news commentator for NBC; C. Douglas Dillion, Ambassador to France; Dwight E. Harken, noted heart surgeon and Associate Clinical Professor of Surgery; and James Hopkins Smith, Jr., Assistant Secretary of the Navy...
...candor, I must say that I was acutely disappointed by the 'spirit of Chicago,' the spirit of temporizing with present problems ... I am made heartsick by those in my own party who do not militantly reject the spurious doctrine [of moderation]. I would be ashamed to harken to the counsels of those who have proposed, in effect, that this is an ideal time for a national coffee break...
...only lead to misunderstanding, misconception, obscurity and mutilation. The artist should be blind to the importance of 'recognition' or 'nonrecognition' and deaf to the teachings and demands of the time. His eye should be directed to his inner life and his ear should harken to the words of the inner necessity...