Word: mask
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Japanese prints. This is the average extent of undergraduate cosmopolitanism. Meanwhile, the non-Eastern student has been taught the inadequacies of his own provincialism; and even if he does not repudiate his background by the end of his four years at Harvard, he will wear an eastern mask while he is here, to be shed only when he returns home, if he returns...
...gauze mask worn by generations of doctors and nurses slows down the spray of germs from their breathing, but eventually lets a dangerous proportion get through. Last week two Minneapolis surgeons described a radically new mask that allows only a small fraction of the germ spread and should markedly reduce the number of infections in surgical wounds...
Designed by Surgeons Claude R. Hitchcock and Joseph Kiser of Minneapolis General Hospital, the mask is made of flexible polyvinyl plastic. Inside it is a disposable filter of cotton and cellulose. In this trap the surgeon's breath is both dried and filtered; the exhaled air escapes backward from the mask's wings, is almost germfree. The new mask, built to stand away from the skin, is cooler than the close-fitting, clammy gauze. And although the plastic part costs $1.50, it should save hospitals money in the long run because it can be sterilized and reused...
...later at the pool-hall I got into another conversational circle with some up-and-coming young professional men from the Syndicate. They were all talking about the South, but I was able to join in easily with an off-hand remark about Governor Almond's blowing "off his mask of cool legality" and taking "to the air waves like a latter-day Faubus." Then one of my business-leader friends told me that Almond has acquiesced to the court orders and had persuaded the emergency session of the Virginia legislature to go along with him in destroying massive resistance...
Mikoyan had no answer for U.S. editorialists and pundits, who continually clamor at the U.S. State Department for "new solutions." Behind his mask of amiability, Mikoyan was still one of the oldest power-holding Bolsheviks, committed to freedom's eventual extinction. Inevitably, his outer amiability had stirred U.S. hopes for a new era of friendship. But by the very nature of his cause, Anastas Mikoyan could only dash such hopes in the hearts of all but the most unrealistic optimists...