Word: incorrect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Standard gangrene preventive for legs and feet with blocked circulation is plenty of heat. This, says Dr. Silbert, is in many cases "absolutely incorrect." Reason: heat increases metabolism of the tissues, raises their need for fresh blood. To prevent gangrene, tissue metabolism in the legs should be slowed down, the blood vessels given less work to do. Hence he puts ice bags around legs and feet until pain disappears and the limb is able to get enough circulation from substitute blood vessels...
...should let that pass . . . except for the plain implication that my son and I are in disagreement on this important decision of his. This is incorrect. My son made up his own mind on his own initiative. This was as it should have been, but I warmly approved his act. Nothing in it implied disagreement with my general views on American foreign policy, with which he is in accord. I have always applauded men who risk their lives for something in which they believe. I have wanted more, not less, American participation in services of human helpfulness...
...former years at Harvard about 300 students annually took the corrective exercises, but only about 200 were required to take them because of incorrect posture. The remainder were either freshmen volunteers or upperclassmen who wanted to continue the exercises they had taken in freshman year. Each year, according to Fradd, about 75% rise to an "A" or "B" rating and about 15% rise to a "C"; the rest remain stationary...
...Prince of Wales might resemble his "angelic, dearest father in every, every respect, both in body and mind." The ladies in waiting were reassuring. Everybody detected in little Bertie's features a striking resemblance to his father. "In this, as it turned out," says Author Dangerfield, "they were incorrect...
...Russia") and the paper invited its readers to say more about the Memphis Incident. Cantankerous Westbrbok Pegler defended Ben Lear on the probability that "the obstreperous haberdashers and grocers" of the Quartermaster outfit had used lewd language to Memphis' shorts-clad girls-an unfair, and also incorrect assumption...