Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Presbyterian Hospital, where be spent a two year interneship after graduating from Columbia Medical School in 1916. Ferry also found time to get married in 1916, and even made an expedition with General Pershing's National Guard unit to the Mexican border, where Poncho Villa was shooting up local villages. During one of the skirmishes, Ferry recalls, a stray bullet whizzed past his nose, pierced the head of a mule standing next to him, and stopped only when it hit a pack of cigarettes in a sergeant's pocket...
...could not keep its monopoly in blood (and flatly denied that it wanted one), it sought compromise measures to insure a supply of freely given blood for the armed forces, for civil defense and for disasters. Trying to work with organized medicine, it agreed not to set up any local blood bank without the approval of the county medical society...
...result of the slowing of time: light that originates in a slow-time region appears, when observed on the earth, to have slightly longer waves than local light. Motion away from the earth has the same effect, so the speed of the body from which the light is coming must be known accurately...
...hotel room near Boston one night recently, a private detective sat down before a television set and leaned back to enjoy a local show that, if aired nationally, might outdraw Dragnet. The private eye, hired by an angry husband to get the goods on his playful wife, was tuned to the goings-on in a nearby room, as relayed by a TV camera installed behind a oneway mirror in a closet door. Occasionally he snapped a photograph of the television picture. It was strictly routine; twice before his agency had used peeping TV in divorce actions, both times...
Burning Crosses. In various Northern and border states, integration has taken place at the school level. Out of 25 communities investigated for the report, only Cairo, 111. experienced any major disorders. There, "crosses were burned, shots were fired into the homes of two local Negro leaders, and a charge of dynamite was exploded outside the home of a Negro physician." Nevertheless, by the end of the first semester 17 Negro children were attending white schools, and by 1953 the number had jumped...