Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many another European statesman. He became world-famed for his daring pioneering in lung surgery; one of his inventions was a chest operation in a low-pressure chamber to avoid collapse of the lungs. During World War I (a general while still in his 30s) he developed a method of hooking an artificial arm to the muscles of a stump by means of ivory pegs, so that the muscles operated the fingers. His operations on the heart, in cancer and in bone-grafting are almost equally famous...
Leventhal's statement on the Album said "the University has placed us in an embarassing and perplexing situation. In the light of the University raling we have decided tonight to discontinue all active work on the publication until either the University modifies its decision or a suitable alternative method of financing presents itself...
...Aimed Injection." Degkwitz's invention: a new method of shooting an "aimed injection" of a healing drug at a given organ of the body. His method (which he did not make entirely clear to U.S. doctors) involves varying the molecular pattern of the drug. Dr. Degkwitz first crystallizes the drug in a shape and size that fits into the organ at which it is aimed. When the drug is in the form of needle-shaped crystals, for example, the crystals after injection into a vein go straight to the lungs. Round crystals of various sizes, says Degkwitz...
Degkwitz reported that he had already tried his injection method against tuberculosis, with promising results. Using two aniline dyes that seem to be lethal to tuberculosis bacilli, he gave daily injections to T.B.-infected guinea pigs. In six weeks, he said, he had cured 98% of them...
...method of getting around rent ceilings had started over a year ago (TIME, March 25, 1946). Then it had been nipped by OPA's ruling that 80% of the tenants in a building had to agree before a building could be made a coop. Even then, the holdouts could not be evicted for six months to a year. But the new law said nothing about that. It provided that tenants could be evicted if the owner of an apartment or house 1) needed it for himself, or 2) had sold it to someone who needed a place to live...