Word: journalizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...July 4, 1776, Thomas Jefferson paid ?3/15s for a luxury - a thermometer - and that evening he set down in his journal that the Philadelphia temperature was 73½°. If he said so, it was so. Thomas Jefferson was a man who knew, and meant, what he said, and no despot could have made him change his mind...
More successful than his venture into military mutiny was a clandestine newspaper which Rousset published during the war. His researcher's soul was annoyed because the Germans falsified business statistics and economic facts. To keep French businessmen from making mistakes, he operated a sort of underground Wall Street Journal...
...bracing pessimism about the age: "There is no question of prudent retreat or wise renunciation. Only dreamers believe that there is a way out. Optimism is cowardice." But there was a growing sense that the Brothers de Goncourt had been grimly farsighted when they wrote in their Journal...
Insulin shock, already used to snap schizophrenics and morphine addicts back to normal, may be a cure for bronchial asthma. In the current British Medical Journal, Dr. Z. Godlowski of the Polish Medical School in Edinburgh reports seven out of eight successes...
...drugs simply counteract each other, explained Drs. Abraham Freireich and Joseph Landsberg, in the A.M.A. Journal. Dr. Freireich, a Long Island county toxicologist, directed the treatments which revived 19 would-be suicides with massive intravenous injections of benzedrine. (The reviving dose of benzedrine would be equally poisonous to any but a thoroughly doped victim.) Benzedrine, he also found, prevents the pneumonia which frequently follows an unsuccessful barbiturate poisoning...