Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...insulin, metrazol, azoman and electric shock have improved many schizophrenics. Last week Dr. Edward Adam ("Streck") Strecker, a U. of Pa. psychiatric bigwig, described a new brain operation for schizophrenia. It is called pre-frontal leucotomy, involves drilling a small hole in the temple, inserting a narrow, flat-bladed instrument with which a fan-shaped cut is made in the brain lobes...
...star is near enough to earth for its image to appear in the telescope as a disc (as do the images of solar planets). If it were not for atmospheric diffusion and imperfections of the instrument, which convert star images into undulant blobs, they would appear in the telescope as sharp pinpoints of light...
...turn portrait photographer and take some himself. Purpose: to help the dentist recreate the patient's facial expression as nearly as possible. Besides photography, several other techniques are in use. One is to make shadow records of the profile ; another is to take facial measurements with an instrument called the dento-profile scale; another is "facial moulage," a life mask...
...telescope, shortly to be in operation, will be named the Jewett Memorial Telescope for James R. Jewett, Professor of Arabic, Emeritus, and his late wife, Margaret Weyerhauser Jewett. A substantial gift from Professor Jewett has made possible the construction of the instrument at this time...
Anyone who plays an instrument is eligible for the tryouts, according to Bernton, who said that no previous marching or band experience is necessary. Besides players the Band also is interested in unusual drum-major or arranging talent...