Word: maining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...surgeon, Gibbon believes that there ought to be a way to relieve the heart of work during an operation on it. Not only would such a machine give the surgeon more time; it would also let him lift up the heart and cut into its main vessels, without causing a spurt of blood. This would enable him to see what needed to be done, instead of depending largely on feel. Some of Gibbon's colleagues agree that a mechanical heart would open "the last field of surgery...
...years, China's Ta Rung Pao (The Impartial) cherished its role as an independent newspaper, liked to think of itself as the New York Times of China. But last November, Editor Wang Yun-sheng, correctly gauging the strength of the red tide, left the main office at Shanghai and turned up in Communist-held Peiping to confess his sins. In 20 years with Ta Rung Pao, admitted Wang, he had failed: "Although [I tried] to run the paper as an independent one, in reality it has betrayed the interests of the people . . . There is no neutrality for a journalist...
That was the main reason 16-year-old Jesse Stuart decided to be a schoolteacher. He asked for, and got, his sister's old job. In time, he became county school superintendent, later quit to concentrate on farming and writing short stories and poetry (Man with a Bull-Tongue Plow). This week, burly Jesse Stuart, now 42, published a new book (The Thread That Runs So True, Scribners; $3) to tell what life as a Kentucky mountain teacher was like...
Legend has it the President Lowell determined the pattern of windows that he wanted in Lowell House, and then left the architects to fit the rooms in behind as best they could. If a bathroom. came behind a main window, or if a man could not stand up in more than half of his top floor room, it was considered unfortunate but unavoidable...
...efforts are concentrated towards two main goals; to help our comrades of the interior of Spain whose directions we follow and leadership accept, and, to capacitate the emigrated youth who are meant to be an important democratic force in the future of Spain, for in our country, only a very restricted number of students have access to the present Universities, and the instruction they receive is limited, cautious, had totalitarian...