Word: method
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...naked eye, like seeing double. But through polaroid eyeglasses each transparency was a clear, three-dimensional, stereoscopic view into a body. A pencil moving over a film of the chest seemed to move among the ribs, poke the heart. Three dentist brothers, Edward, Milton, Harold Klein, perfected the method...
...farther a piece of anatomy is from the film during exposure, the more its two superimposed silhouettes overlap in the resulting composite transparency. The method of calculating a bullet's depth is to measure the overlap of its silhouette, and compare that with the overlap of some body landmark, preferably a bone. The basic principle of this depth-determination technique is as old as geometry. But the Kleins hope that Army & Navy surgeons can use their stereoscopic Xray...
...Keep your powder dry" is a sound military rule; it is also what makes powder manufacturing a risky business. Last week Western Cartridge Co. told of an unorthodox but effective and less hazardous method of making smokeless powder under water...
...Lascoff's special gift to his profession was his recipes-to a pharmacist, a recipe is not a combination of drugs (that is the physician's province) but the method of making the combination hang together. Dr. Lascoff collected recipes old and new, developed many of his own. He was on the U.S. Pharmacopoeia's committee for the last four editions (a new one is published every ten years), started and edited the American Pharmaceutical Association's Recipe Book through three editions, and edited Drug Topics' column of advice to druggists...
...convinced of its success. Certain science fields have often been exceptions, since an hour of lab seems to many far more valuable than a personal talk. But an important area for science tutorial would be the liberal arts approach to those sciences, the history and application of the scientific method. A strong policy by the College of recognition of tutoring would help this problem as well as that of manpower; faculty-men would be more willing to tutor if they felt it was an important part of the curriculum, and if their other academic loads were lightened proportionately. Conference groups...