Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...training-table menu of steaks and chops is an overworked ritual, say a trio of Harvard doctors in the current Journal of the American Medical Association. Good red meat is good for anyone; but though it may make an athlete think he is stronger, it works no more magic than the ground lions'-teeth with which ancient warriors spiced their meals. For the most part, "there is considerable doubt whether manipulation of an adequate diet can enhance performance . . . The best diet for an athlete is one that he enjoys and one that, at the same time, provides a variety...
...technical approval had the unhappy effect of putting Holophane-and possibly other companies -in a position of double jeopardy. By competing abroad, Holophane leaves itself open to law suits in Britain and France, where courts may not recognize the jurisdiction of the U.S. Supreme Court. Commented the Wall Street Journal: "The four justices who voted against the decision . . . must content themselves with observing of the Supreme Court what Alice said of herself: 'Curiouser and curiouser! Now I'm opening out like the largest telescope that ever...
...youth in Springfield, he sold subr scriptions for the weekly Sangamo Journal, covered the state legislature for the same paper when he was a state representative. He carried his habit of writing letters-to-the-editor right into the White, House. For about a year before his inauguration he secretly owned a newspaper, the German-language Illinois Staats-Anzeiger at Springfield. The contract Lincoln drew up to buy the paper left it in the hands of Editor Theodore Canisius but entitled Lincoln to take over its type and press any time the paper failed to espouse the Republican line...
Thanks to these findings, the body was identified as that of Major William V. Holohan, 40, the OSS agent who had mysteriously disappeared during a mission far behind the enemy lines in December 1944.* What fascinated Pathologist Lentino, as he now reports in the A.M.A. Journal, was the amazing state of preservation of the internal organs. As his trained eye looked at the organs, though they were six years dead, it was simple for him to identify instantly the stomach and heart, liver and spleen. But when he took specimens of them for laboratory examination, the microscope showed that...
...Most, if not all, major heart surgery can be performed more safely with the patient chilled to a temperature between 84° and 89° F., Drs. Henry Swan and S. Gilbert Blount Jr. of Denver suggested in the A.M.A. Journal. They found that hypothermia extends to eight minutes the time during which the heart can be stopped without damage to the brain. They hope to improve the method to cover heart operations that cannot yet be performed within that time limit...