Word: method
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This medieval method still goes on in the Catholic colleges; but at Harvard Commencement parts in English were substituted in he nineteenth century. Yet the Commencement Programme is still the Seniors' programme. The "candidate" are all in the nominative case, Inviting the guests to the ceremony, before the dignitarion. In the colonial period, the Seniors paid for the programme themselves, and there was a great row in 1733 when they shifted their patronage from a printer of reputed Tory leanings to one more patriotic in his sentiments...
Also dealt with, but probably not for keeps, was Sister Elizabeth Kenny's method of treating infantile paralysis. After two years of research, a special committee reported that: 1) just as many people recover from polio without Kenny treatment as with it; 2) Sister Kenny's concept of the disease (TIME, Sept. 27) is wrong; 3) her treatment is neither new nor unique. Retorted Sister Kenny, who was also in Chicago last week: "[The A.M.A. report is] the most criminal thing that ever happened in [any work] . . . a terrible thing to put out . . . the most cruel thing that...
...lung arteries after operations, Boston's Dr. Arthur Wilburn Allen watches the big leg veins where the clots form and, when necessary, opens the veins, draws the clots out by suction before they can move on and do any harm, then ties off the veins. He uses this method on hundreds of cases a year, has greatly reduced deaths from embolism...
...biggest step forward was the development of a method of making penicillin in tanks instead of in flasks. The tank ("submerged") method has saved much labor, cut the minimum cycle of the mold's growth from six to three days, helped cut the price of penicillin nearly 85%. Present average costs of penicillin treatments: $35 for severe septicemia (1,000,000 units), $5 for gonorrhea (150,000 units...
Last week Selective Service headquarters announced a new method of handling inductees. As it is done now, men who pass their physicals at induction centers are earmarked there for the Army or Navy_, according to their preferences, fitness and the needs of the Services. They are then forwarded in due time to Army or Navy reception centers...