Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ever-growing class of mind-made diseases famed Neurologist Stanley Cobb of Harvard last week proposed a new member: arthritis. Although the main cause of arthritis is "an x factor, as yet unknown," Dr. Cobb and his associates-reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association that "poverty, grief and family worry" are intimately connected with the swollen knuckles and aching joint mice of rheumatoid arthritis...
...skipper, Paul Hammond, and among its crew were Harvard undergraduates, Mr. and Mrs. Dwight W. Morrow Jr. (see above) and the wife and eldest daughter of Harvard's Professor Samuel Eliot Morison. Professor Morison sat tall and erect in the bow, clutching a copy of Christopher Columbus' journal in one hand, a notepad and pencil in the other. The professor and his companions were setting out on a Harvard expedition to retrace part of Columbus' eastward and westward voyages and find out how good a navigator Columbus...
...surgeon would dare operate without rubber gloves. Sterilized, they protect patients from infection, protect the surgeon from accidental cuts and infection from patients. But so serious is Germany's rubber shortage that last week, in a Munich medical journal, patriotic Surgeon Karl Faber advised his colleagues to "wash their hands several minutes longer in order to economize on [dispense with] valuable rubber gloves." Other warlike economies suggested by Dr. Faber: 1) substitution of cloth gloves for rubber except in major operations; 2) laundering of bloody bandages and compresses which are ordinarily thrown away; 3) use of small-sized towels...
...secret has it been that Minneapolis' Jones family was anxious to sell the thinning Journal. Nor has it been a secret that Des Moines' Cowles family, which had bought the Star in 1935 (and done well with it), has wanted a firmer foothold in Minneapolis. Last week's sale price, a reputed $2,250,000-$2,500,000, left Minneapolis (pop. 464,356) with only two daily newspapers: the all-day Tribune (circulation 148,017) and the evening Star-Journal, whose circulation will be around...
...Journal of the American Medical Association last week Dr. Walter Meredith Boothby and colleagues* of the Mayo Clinic published a complete report of their new doughnut-shaped rubber oxygen mask (TIME, Jan. 16). Oxygen administered in hospitals through cumbersome, complicated oxygen tents usually costs a patient $12 to $25 a day. Use of the small, neat inhalation mask, said Dr. Boothby, "should average only $5 to $8 a day," and in certain cases a patient "can be taught the entire technique of administering the oxygen to himself at home...