Word: instrumentations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Medical Society in Washington. The operation, known in medical circles simply as "Beck 1," is one which he pioneered 19 years ago. In it, the surgeon slits open the sac surrounding the heart, and rubs both the inside of the sac and the heart itself with a rough-headed instrument, causing acute inflammation. Finely powdered asbestos is then sprinkled on the heart covering, and the resulting abrasive action between the heart and its sac adds to the inflammation and causes the heart and the sac to adhere. When that happens, a richer supply of blood passes to the damaged heart...
...down to write his mother the news, he was not thinking of his own fame or fortune. "Now," wrote Alexander Graham Bell, "we shall have money enough to teach speech to little deaf children." As a matter of fact, had he not been trying to find an instrument to help such children, he might never have started experimenting with the telephone in the first place...
Many of us who find football exceedingly dull were amazed at the insights of Herr Beyer. Not only does the "sport" seem to be an instrument of aggression for these oaf-like creatures who are too unintelligent to shoot off their excess energy elsewhere, but sociologically, the mass extravaganza is another of the modern "spectaculars" (similar to the late Roman gladiatorial combats) which are so much a sign of decadence...
...abolished two years ago, but that the law accomplishing this has never been published. Berman, in an address before the Institute of Law of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, said he had been surprised to hear that the Special Board, which he frankly termed "the chief legal instrument of terror in the Soviet Union," had been abolished, and that this fact had been kept secret. It appears, however, that the Russians still do not want this information released, for all reference to the Special Board was censored from American newspaper dispatches covering Berman's address...
...Agassiz Station in Harvard, Massa- chusetts, 26 miles east of Cambridge, the Observatory has committed the major portion of its reserves, including the latest of its purchases. Radio telescopes have the obvious advantage of not requiring a clear path of vision. The observatory already possesses a 25-foot instrument and is in the process of installing one with a 60-foot dish. Radio telescopes in other parts of the country have encountered difficulty with commercial television signals though happily these have failed to affect the Observatory's as yet. The riddle of the heavens is apparently a more crucial...