Word: maying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...turn up some soft gallstones, a slightly low basal metabolism rate or a few intestinal parasites. But the doctor should remember that things like that cannot cause the great fatigue the patient complains about. The commonest cause of abnormal weariness, he said, is a "nervous breakdown," a term that may include neurosis or psychosis. A lot of operations could be avoided, Alvarez thinks, if the doctor asked his patient a simple three-word question: "Are you happy?" The answer might give the clue to an unhappy home or job that led to the nervous breakdown. No out-&-out Freudian, Alvarez...
Help from a Frog. The doctors were deeply interested in a simple test for pregnancy, presented by the White Cross Hospital of Columbus, Ohio and Denison University of Granville, Ohio. It involved no new scientific principles, but was an improved application of old ones. Tests using rabbits are slow, may take two days; frogs or toads imported from South America or South Africa are expensive ($4 to $10 apiece). Urine from a pregnant woman injected into a common male leopard frog (Rana pipiens) causes emission of spermatozoa. The test has also proved valuable for finding out whether, in doubtful cases...
...landscape painting goes back to the day I returned to French soil after four war years in the U.S. For a long time I doubted myself too much to paint without trying to prove anything, but with age one often fulfills the dreams of youth, paradoxical as that may seem. We grow more innocent, more detached...
...Eugene F. McDonald Jr., president of Zenith Radio, has been happily harpooning his competitors. Full-page ads in 30 newspapers have trumpeted the warning that all TV sets (except Zenith's) are in danger of becoming obsolete. Zenith's reasoning: any day now, the Federal Communications Commission may license Ultra High Frequencies* for TV transmission. McDonald claimed that Zenith is the only television receiver equipped with "a specially designed, built-in turret tuner" with "provision" for picking...
...schedule canceled the ad. The TV-station-owning Detroit News ran it, but also published an answer. Gist of the News''s retort: "Anyone . . . who denies himself . . . the thrill of television because of 'frequency changes' could grow old and grey waiting for the change that may never come...