Word: layman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Angina and pain are inseparable in the layman's mind. But to complete the confusion, Dr. Briggs lists a paradoxical angina sine dolore-angina without pain. The victim feels generally distressed and may get the sweats. Treatment is the same as for the viselike attacks: a tablet of nitroglycerin and rest...
...student moves on." And perhaps most importantly, the machine, like a good tutor, substantiates and corroborates right answers and quickly points out and corrects wrong ones--"using this immediate feedback not only to shape his behavior most efficiently but to maintain it in strength in a manner which the layman would describe as 'holding the student's interest...
...death certificate, on the line for "cause of death," he wrote: "Carcinoma (cancer) of bronchus due to excessive smoking." This was unheard of. The registrar harrumphed, refused to accept the certificate. That meant there had to be an inquest-before Coroner R. Ian Milne, a layman who happens to be an unreformed smoker, Cried Milne: "I would take issue with any doctor who used such a term as 'excessive' in a death certificate. [That] is to judge the habits of one's fellow men. That must be the province of the coroner." Coroner Milne's verdict...
...Basil O'Connor, president of the National Foundation (formerly for Infantile Paralysis), first layman ever to be so honored...
Carpenters & Tailors. From the earth's four corners the cardinals came, each with his two "conclavists"-usually a fellow cleric and a layman-who are permitted to accompany cardinals into the conclave enclosure as aides. Only two cardinals are expected to be absent when the conclave begins this week. Both Aloysius Cardinal Stepinac, Primate of Yugoslavia, and Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty, Primate of Hungary, will stay away from Rome for the same good reason: Stepinac is under house arrest, Mindszenty a refugee in the U.S. legation in Budapest. And even if they could get to Rome, their governments would deny...