Word: keying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nevertheless, the friendly reviewer pulls the usual journalistic blooper, when he says that although deafened, Edison "could hear distinctly the click and clatter of telegraph keys." This would qualify him for supernormal hearing, because a simple telegraph set consists of key and sounder, the former to send on and the latter to receive from...
...moon's key to the future offers possibilities for mankind far beyond military protection. In the scientific sense, Singer writes, "man can only approach the future rationally in terms of the present and the past. Even so, it is well to recognize that progress is not always attained in terms of today's conventions and reasonings. Man first tried to fly by flapping birdlike wings, but modern aircraft do not use this principle; nor do modern railroad cars bear much resemblance to the horse-drawn carriage prototypes. There must be a somewhat visionary or even fanciful approach...
...Security" was the watchword for more than half a century in 99% of both public and private mental hospitals. Gates were guarded to prevent escapes. An attending doctor or nurse had to go through what Dr. Herman B. Snow, director at St. Lawrence, calls "the ritual of the key" to enter a building. Then, jangling a fistful of hardware, he had to repeat the ritual at the door of every ward, at every staircase and elevator. That this security fetish is an illusion is shown by St. Lawrence's experience: it never had many escapes compared with most hospitals...
...tiny (14-bed) unit at Stanford Hospital* applies the open-door system with outstanding success. "When we speak of patients as being 'locked up," says the psychiatrist in charge, Dr. Anthony J. Errichetti Jr., "what we really mean is 'locked out'-we are using lock and key to exclude them from society. When we used to put a patient in seclusion, he remained as agitated as ever-only the staff was tranquilized." Here, the seclusion room is used only when the patient himself says he wants to go there to be quiet and have a chance...
...answer to that key question has long been a subject of controversy because most Government and private statistics do not take into account such factors as price rises, and because they are based on arbitrarily selected short periods of years. Last week the privately financed Committee for Economic Development announced a new set of charts called the Growth Reckoner, boldly designed to avoid the error possibilities inherent in most official U.S. statistics...