Word: moving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...together with this attitude, we must keep faith that we can remain at peace. Perhaps faith can move mountains. At any rate, fatalistic discouragement is the best high-road to the low-land of war. Keep faith, lest the patient die for lack of will-power...
...blow all the white men out of China. Last week the Japanese took out their pretty fans to sharpen the wind. Politely, firmly the Government announced that if other powers wished to remove their troops from China, Japan would be honored to "protect" their nationals and interests. Next move might be less polite, more firm -an ultimatum to Britain and France...
Military surgeons work by one rule of thumb: patch up and move on. At frontline dressing stations neither time nor sentiment is wasted on the hopelessly injured. A seriously wounded man has to survive the long stretcher trip through collecting station, hospital station, evacuation hospital to base hospital, some 30 or 40 miles behind the lines, before he is permitted the medical luxuries of thoroughgoing surgical care...
...greatly reduced by immediate injections of vaccine, a treatment developed by famed U. S. Pathologist William H. Welch. The late Spanish war taught doctors a rapid, efficient blood-transfusion technique. But military surgery remains essentially a problem in organization, and doctors aim primarily to sort and shift casualties, to move them on like "factory goods on a conveyor belt." Experts claim that eight operating teams, of nine men each (including anesthetists and nurses), can handle 120 serious surgical cases in ten hours...
Latest artist to move in on the campus is slight, baldish, bright-looking, tweedy Dale Nichols, 35. School begins for him this week at the University of Illinois, whose trustees, impressed because he won a $300 William Randolph Hearst prize at a Chicago Art Institute exhibit in 1935, because Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum bought and hung his End of the Hunt, because he is a two-fisted advocate of "beauty" v. "ugliness" in art, last summer appointed him for one year, first art apostle to the Illini under a five-year Carnegie Foundation grant...