Word: older
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...much good an operation has done. Thanks to the prospects of such machines, surgeons who have so far held aloof from coronary disease are now showing interest. Even so, the reaming operations for coronary disease are likely to be limited to men under 55 who have localized obstructions-the older group, with more widespread disease, will probably have to rely on medical management or a Beck operation...
Closing the Ring. The surgeon's dogged efforts to conquer these defects turned into one of the great campaigns in medical history. Despite revolutionary progress in all surgery during the '30s-thanks to improved anesthesia and transfusion techniques plus antibacterial drugs-older surgeons still recoiled from the heart. Younger men braved its defenses; with rare exceptions heart surgery is still dominated by young men. After the first premature frontal attacks-nearly all patients died -the pioneers began to close the ring around the heart by working on the nearby great vessels: as one of them puts it, "circling...
...Older residents were more sorrowful than resentful. One woman reminisced about her 44 years as the University's tenant, and stated that Harvard was an "ideal" landlord. Her boarding house used to house students until complaints about the DeWolfe St. "rathouses" caused the transfer to the dormitories. Now, students will live on DeWolfe again, and she thinks this will force her to leave Cambridge...
Lenin's Words. World War I cut off from Marxism those who preferred patriotism to party. Then, when the whole movement seemed to have collapsed, the Bolshevik revolution came to rally the U.S. left in a kind of "ecstasy." At this stage many an older reader will recognize the names. An ex-anarchist named Michael Gold was converted; Eugene Debs declared himself a Bolshevik; Max Eastman was elated. Many a poor visionary in New York-remembering a fellow sometimes called Bronstein who had lived in The Bronx and would lecture for $10 a night-now felt the taste...
...George Watson had an interesting article on teaching problems vis-a-vis undergraduates. We are all sympathetic with the undergraduates who feel that they do not see enough of the faculty and especially the older members of the faculty. This was a less serious problem when in the interwar period we had a smaller student body and an excellent tutorial system. Unfortunately, the latter proved very costly...