Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...medical techniques. Among them: putting epileptics, once considered unemployable, to work making airplane parts; studying the life and death of tissue cultures of glia (cells of the nervous system's supporting structure) to determine the causes of multiple sclerosis; a new, intensive (one psychiatrist for 20 patients) method of treating mental patients...
...diamond-makers-Drs. Francis P. Bundy, H. Tracy Hall, Herbert M. Strong and Robert Wentorf-do not tell in detail how they do it. In general they follow nature's method, which uses the enormous pressure and heat deep under the earth's surface. G.E.'s diamond crystals are formed by a giant press that concentrates 1,000 tons on a small metal cup heated to above 5,000° F. In it are carbon (probably graphite) and other secret material. When the matrix cools, it contains diamonds (crystallized carbon) the size of sand but big enough...
LACMA also rides herd on the program itself, ever since the first show brought in a flood of complaints that a resuscitation method used on a newborn baby was obsolete. LACMA acts both as a censor and a prod to Medic. A show dealing with homosexuality was "tabled" by the doctors, but they have lifted some TV taboos, e.g., in a film about an unwed mother, NBC balked when the doctor-as he normally would-asked the girl when her last period had occurred. LACMA insisted that the word stay...
...took place. Each party has attempted to gerrymander the other out of some of its Congressional seats, but neither has been able to pass a redistricting law, with the result that Massachusetts retains the same ungainly districts it had in 1941. It is time that the state put some method into the redistricting chaos...
...Student Council last night passed a motion setting up the procedure of the '55 Class committee elections. The method combines the principles of intra-House and class wide election...