Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Surgery of the heart has probably reached the limits set by Nature to all surgery: no new method, and no new discovery, can overcome the natural difficulties that attend a wound of the heart." So in 1896 wrote eminent British Surgeon Stephen Paget. A few weeks ago at Philadelphia's Hahnemann Hospital, eminent U.S. Surgeon Charles Philamore Bailey walked into a cluttered, unpretentious operating room which has attracted visiting medical men from all over the world. Dr. Bailey, at 46 one of the most daring innovators in heart surgery, was ready once again to push "the limits...
...Doughnut Method. The operation (which, with variations, had been duplicated almost simultaneously in Boston and in Britain) "suddenly became too popular and was being done in practically every country hospital," says Bailey. In 1953 Detroit Surgeon Forest Dewey Dodrill convinced Bailey that his operation was still not good enough, and Bailey worked out improvements that are now widely used...
There will be 23 programs in all, dealing with physics, chemistry, geology, and astronomy. They will be designed, Creshkoff said, to bring a better understanding of science to the public, largely by presenting the scope and method of the work of scientists...
Since it is also a short film, the Exeter has padded the program with The History of the Cinema, a rather primitive cartoon imitating the UPA method and wit with lame success. There is also a ten-minute visit to England's Trooping of the Colours, one of the world's few surviving large scale pageants. The film is appropriately impressive and colorful...
Dean Watson has urged all freshmen to take advantage of the "consultation hours" as a means of informing themselves of the Houses, and also as a method for the Houses to learn of prospective members...