Word: minore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...treated by a G.P., many hospitals regard the generalist as a sorting clerk whose chief function is to refer patients to staff specialists. Restrictions on qualified generalists are strictest in large Eastern cities and include a complete shut-out in most teaching hospitals, limitation in others to minor surgery, nonoperative obstetrics, routine medical care. In Baltimore hospitals G.P.s are forbidden even to stitch a small cut or open an abscess in the emergency room. One hospital in Pittsburgh requires that the chief of obstetrics grant a G.P. official permission to use outlet forceps in a delivery. Twenty-three New York...
...fringe benefit plan there are other minor recommendations. One calls for a codification of the university's policy on the remuneration of active faculty members who are permanently disabled. Another provides for a six instead of a two month continuance to his heirs of the salary of a teacher who dies while active. Both are of negligible cost ($10,000) and a maximum feasibility. But it seems unnecessary for the University to subsidize the faculty club at a cost of $15,000 by abolishing all dues and in effect forcing all the faculty to become members. Aside from the proposed...
Because of the large number of major sports, Meigs said that Cross Country will have to be given a major letter with minor colors. The new letter, to be mounted on a white sweater, will be a black 'H' with a red border...
...with the war." This may be so, but he would not say it, and the girl would not reply, "But you are a German." Even though Maria Schell, as the daughter, is a lovely woman, it is hard to listen to the words she has been given. The "minor key" in which the movie is set seems more like a series of uneasy moments where the characters are made to make their own situations explicit...
...Making minor changes in admissions data is clearly no panacea to the language instruction problem in secondary schools. In some schools, nevertheless, the changes might have the effect of producing better counselling in language study. In addition, a more complete statement might induce some students to do individual study or to seek outside instruction...