Word: medial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sixty years ago, when the revolutionary ideas of Lister and Pasteur were beginning to gain credence, there was no medial school in the U. S. worthy of the name. American students went abroad to do research, learn surgical and laboratory technique. In 1883 Daniel Coit Gilman, head of Johns Hopkins University, heartened by a $3,228,000 bequest from the Quaker founder of the school, began scouting for distinguished professors who would form the nucleus of a great U. S. medical faculty...
Among the most prominent of the visiting professors are Sir Frederick G. Hopkins and Etienne Gilson. Sir Frederick is a British Nobel Prize winner, and a distinguished pioneer in vitamin research, who will be a lecturer at the Medial School. Professor Gilson who is probably the foremost Catholic Philosopher in the world today, and who is a great authority on Descartes, and the whole Cartesian school, will be William James Lecturer on Philosophy for the first half-year...
Called to Chicago in 1930 to study highway accidents, Dr. McClintock concluded that all accidents and congestion fit in four categories of friction: 1) medial, 2) intersectional, 3) marginal, 4) internal-stream. Medial friction occurs in the middle of the road of two opposing traffic streams, causes 17% of accidents, results in head-on collisions. Intersectional friction, which produces crossroad collisions, causes 19% of all highway accidents. Marginal friction (20%) is generated by bad road shoulders, abrupt curves, faulty banking and "fixed objects" such as trees, parked vehicles or pedestrians. Internal-stream friction (44%) is the conflict of faster...
...accidents. Less than 1% provide what experts now recognize as a fundamental necessity - automatic means to correct the driver's mistakes. Nearly 97% of the primary system, which today carries 65% of U. S. traffic, is two-lane high way, standard 15 years ago, substandard now. To cure medial friction state highway engineers invented the three-lane road. This proved the most murderous of all roads as drivers fought for the middle lane. Multi-lane roads lessened medial friction, but caused more internal-stream and intersectional crashes...
...Feed a chunky, rolypoly baby a mixture half cow's milk, half water. Feed a long, slim baby a mixture three parts milk, one part water; a "medial" baby two parts milk, one part water. Reason, according to Manhattan's Dr. Isaac Newton Kugelmass: normal cow's milk forms tough curds in baby stomachs, diluted milk forms soft curds. Lanky babies secrete enough gastric juices to digest tough curds with no trouble. Other body types require soft curds for comfort. All types "require 10% of mixed sugars added, with supplements of vitamins...