Word: layman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Higher Loyalty. To Layman Smith, the trend is clear, present, and dangerous: in their anxiety to adjust the child to his environment, modern educators have actually forgotten the child for the environment. As the American Association of School Administrators put it in its own brand of pedagoguese, education should aim not at educating "the individual in his own right to become a valuable member of society," but at preparing him "for the realization of his best self in the higher loyalty of serving the basic ideals and aims of our society...
...American Weekly, in his spare time will write a syndicated daily column and two monthly columns, and hold down teaching posts at the University of Chicago and University of Illinois medical schools. Somehow, Dr. Fishbein also expects to have time for a lecture tour and for work on a layman's guide to modern psychiatry...
...Vannevar Bush, boss of all U.S. scientists who worked for the Government in World War II, summarizes the feelings of the layman toward the newest weapons in the world's arsenals. In a book to be published next week-Modern Arms and Free Men (Simon & Schuster; $3.50)- he devotes himself to the job of illuminating some of the dim corners of science's weapon shop...
...still unsettled point is the relationship between colds and allergies, though doctors admit that a layman doesn't much care what ails him, so long as he is promptly cured. Dr. William J. Kerr of the University of California's Medical School, a top authority on the subject, believes that only 25% of cold symptoms are due to allergy. Arguing from this thesis, he takes a dim view of anti-histaminics as cold cures. Said he: "To get one shot out of four wouldn't be very good hunting-and it's lousy medicine...
...years, the Department of Legal Medicine has quietly been helping Massachusetts police solve crimes through medical investigation. Simultaneously it has been pioneering the spread of skilled legal medicine as a replacement for the "layman coroner" system which still prevails in 41 states. It therefore is understandable that Med School officials were enthusiastic at the prospect of nation-wide publicity when two MGM investigators last year proposed a movie on the Legal Medicine Department...