Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...about utilizing the easiest method of learning them. They can point out, and rightly, that getting an education is not the same thing as playing a football game--the purpose is not primarily competitive and therefore "rules of the game" are slightly ridiculous. Education is supposed to be an instrument of success living, economically and socially, and to a certain extent an end in itself...
...Lawson figured that J-type people are visually "blacked out" during 11% of the time they think their eyes are open. He believes that blinking is responsible for many a misread scientific instrument, many a missed tennis ball, many an auto accident...
...course offerings, for theory is not the only area in which non-concentrators are at a disadvantage. Only Music 1 and one other course are available every year for any but semi-professional musicians-i.e., those who have not had any theory and do not play an instrument. The other non-concentrators' course varies from "The Symphony" to "Chamber Music from Haydn to Brahms," but only one is offered each year...
...Technique. First Dr. Smithy designed a new valvulotome, an instrument for cutting valves. Essentially, it is a tube containing a small lancet with a special biting end ; with it he hoped to cut out the scar tissue that forms on the heart valves of many rheumatic fever victims, and blocks their action. Then he developed a way of using procaine (local anesthetic common in dentistry) to control the violent, often fatal spasms that usually plague surgeons who have the courage to operate on the heart. Dr. Smithy was ready for his first operation on a human being when Betty...
Seventy-five veterans constructed the instrument under the direction of Frederic G. Miller, research associate in Engineering Sciences and Applied Physics. Miller will follow the machine to Virginia...