Word: patiently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...admirers say he is solid, patient, dependable, an able, incorruptible administrator who has built up enormous public faith in his honesty and political integrity, a sound planner with a painstaking mind and tremendous capacity for work, a good organizer, born leader and proved vote-getter, who has earned the support of both major parties in state elections...
Sixty-five years ago the superintendent of a Swiss insane asylum, Gottlieb Burckhardt, cured a patient of auditory hallucinations (hearing things) by removing part of his brain. Thirteen years ago Portuguese surgeons invented and other surgeons developed the now-popular operation called pre-frontal lobotomy to treat certain types of insanity...
...Society of Neurosurgery. Some thought that the new operation, called topectomy,* was the best yet. Others were skeptical. Instead of short-circuiting the whole frontal lobe, the surgeons remove part of the brain tissue-sometimes tiny bits, sometimes pieces as big as a cookie. The size depends on the patient's symptoms ; so does the area in which the hole is made (it may be in the temple just above the eyebrow, higher on the forehead, or at the top of the skull, depending on what part of the brain is to be removed...
Sonotone Corp., which contends that its gross of $11,000,000 last year was bigger than Zenith's, chalked up 40% of its cost to manufacturing, the rest to training of acousticians and patient education. Zenith's McDonald considers all such frills so much mumbo-jumbo to spark sales. He thinks aids should be sold off department-store shelves and by mail order...
Died. Dr. Charles Albert Elsberg, 76, first surgeon of Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center's pioneer Neurological Institute; after long illness; in Stamford, Conn. Knowing that certain brain tumors affect the olfactory sense, Elsberg in 1935 developed the current standard technique of testing a patient's sense of smell as a means of determining the presence of a brain tumor undetectable by X rays...