Word: indirectly
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...physical and mental illness. In similar surveys, said Dr. Kraft, other radiologists detected tumors of the brain covering that had gone unsuspected during months or years of psychiatric treatment. The tumors can usually be removed surgically, with good chances of relieving the emotional disturbances of which they are the indirect cause...
...Also indirect but far more puzzling was a surprising finding by Radiologist Kraft. Patients who had never before been in a mental hospital were divided into two groups, psychotic and nonpsychotic. Among the psychotics were no fewer than 46% with evidence of enlarged pituitary glands, as against only 21% of the non-psychotics. This finding tells nothing yet about the origin or probable course of the patients' illnesses, Dr. Kraft emphasized. But the obvious next step is to examine the hormone balance of the mental patients, correct it if necessary, then see whether this makes psychiatric treatment more effective...
Connors added that Bliss seemed to be concerned with the durability of the collage-provided desks and beds, and that he found the indirect-lighting in the dorms "very clever...
...ideas about what its money should be used for; and more often, about the terms under which its money should be used. Some Federal aid money requires the applicant to file an affidavit disclaiming membership, and even belief, in any subversive organizations. A second source of friction is indirect costs. A formula devised by the budget bureau suggests that the overhead expense to the University involved in administering every hundred dollars of Federal aid can rise as high as $28.50. But Harvard is allowed to add onto most research contracts only a 15 per cent allowance for indirect costs...
...evidence that filters reduce the risk of lung cancer is "indirect but meaningful," say Dr. Moore and colleagues...