Word: healthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This controversial Barden Bill wants to give the money to the States with the sole proviso that it not be used for so-called "auxiliary aids"--health programs, buses to and from school, and so on. Since these auxiliary aids are in some States granted to Catholic parochial schools, the Catholic hierarchy, particularly Cardinal Spellman of New York, has argued that this constitutes discrimination. If a child in a public school gets a bottle of milk at public cost, Spellman says, the government is morally obliged to give a bottle of milk to a Catholic child in his parochial school...
Twenty years after presenting the world with the new-famous iron lung, the University School of Public Health has come up with the "electrophoresis respirator," a device that may make the artificial lung obsolete...
Developed over the past two years by Public Health School doctors Stanley J. Sarnoff and Dr. James L. Whittenberger, assistant professor of physiology, the new respirator induces artificial breathing by passing an electrical current through the phrenic nerve in the patient's neck...
Still insisting that she loved her husband, Joyce decided that she had to part from him forever to get her health back. Refusing to charge mental cruelty ("He was a fine boy and a wonderful husband"), she sued for divorce on the ground that she was allergic to her husband. In Los Angeles, Superior Judge Ray Brockmann was afraid that to grant a divorce on such a ground would set a ticklish precedent...
...masterpiece to life in English spent 17 years directly on the job and a lifetime indirectly preparing for it. Samuel Putnam began translating in Latin class at Hoopeston, Ill. High School, was so good at it that he won a Latin scholarship to the University of Chicago. Ill health kept him from earning a degree but not from trying his writing hand at newspaper work...