Word: harmful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been put in plaster, he is safe-he may be blown out of an ambulance, derailed in a train, crashed in an aeroplane or torpedoed at sea, he may be left for weeks in a cellar . . . but so long as the plaster holds he will come to no harm." French surgeons in the War of 1870 pioneered the plaster closed method and in World War I it was used to some extent by U. S. Army Surgeon Hiram Winnett Orr, now of Lincoln, Neb., who contributed a preface to Dr. Trueta's book, Treatment of War Wounds And Fractures...
...Biltmore Hotel, a crowd of robust young women gathered around a bubbling sitz bath, hidebound corsets, steel braces. Some bent over a baby kicking mightily in a whirlpool bathtub (Currence Underwater Therapy Tank). The place looked like a medieval torture chamber, but the young women meant no harm: they were only members of the American Physiotherapy Association, holding their 19th annual convention...
What most touched the hearts of U. S. women last week was the plight of refugee children. In preparation for the Battle of Britain, England prepared to get as many children as possible out of harm's way, as many as possible out of the country. Canada last week awaited a first contingent...
Last February, when Chilean Arturo Godoy, a punchinello without a punch, lasted 15 rounds against Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis, most fight fans were less surprised than disgusted by the challenger's tactics of crawling around out of harm's way. Last week, in New York City's Yankee Stadium, Joe Louis faced the Chilean again in what Broadway wags called the "Second Battle of Squat...
...Universities Do Arts and letters More Good than Harm?"; "Problems of a New Day in the Law"; "What Price Tenure?" "Has Education as a Business turned Out a Satisfactory Product at a Reasonable Price?"; "Current Medical Conquests"; and "New Tools and Researches" will be the subjects of the speakers...