Word: objects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This equipment was first tried out on wax models of a human thigh. Afterward, when a surgeon used it to find a needle in a fat woman's shoulder, the tiny object, usually a surgeon's bugbear, was snagged in 47 seconds. Dr. Cole wishes the Army would give the method a trial, thinks it would be able to detect bullets or shell shards more quickly, cut down probing and cutting...
...test was designed by Educator Hugh Russell Fraser and two-time Pulitzer Prizeman Allan Nevins, Columbia University's Professor of history. Object: "to determine the amount of U.S. history that the high-school graduate retains from his secondary course." The question of what he retains from other courses, of what he would retain from a compulsory college course, went necessarily unanswered...
...safety to the forces," he and his fellow correspondents protested violently against not being allowed to use such a phrase as "the siege of Singapore": " 'But surely you can't deny that we are besieged.' " 'Besieged, yes,' said the military censor, 'but I object to the noun "siege".' " Such bureaucracy was seriously harmful in the more vital areas of the war. But it is Weller's view that the picture of Singapore as a decadent, liquor-swilling, escapist community is totally false. Decisions came from London, and from Lon don, too, should...
...issue on which the nation and the College agreed most closely was the treatment of the Germans after the war. The decision was that the leaders should be punished but the Germans people, themselves, should not be the object of harsh treatment on the part of the United Nations...
Exactly 39% of all Hollywood pictures-in-production, twice as many as a year ago, are musical comedies. Obvious object: an anodyne for U.S. war pains. Hollywood's anodynes for its own music-making pains...