Word: plumber
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...consulting fees-the academic form of moonlighting." Such moonlighting has its high price: "While in principle the professor still has more time than most professional men to spend at home, including the long summer vacation, much of this time in fact is spent either earning money to pay the plumber or working like a plumber." He mentions such mundanities, Riesman writes, "because I see a number of graduate students who doggedly insist on going into teaching because they feel that if they entered business they would condemn themselves to meanness and triviality...
...keep it covered with a piece of absorbent gauze. Proud and sensitive, Tom managed to keep the secret of his feeding difficulty from all but his closest friends, got through six grades of parochial school, even played backyard football. He went to work first as a plumber's helper, married and had a daughter...
Percy Lawrence, a South London plumber, was a 50-a-day chain smoker. He had worked up to this forced-draft rate in the Royal Navy during World War II, and never tapered off. As Lawrence lost weight and complained of always being tired, Dr. Paul Frederick Lister advised him to cut down. Still he went right on smoking. Last August Dr. Lister did a bronchoscopy, found cancer of the lung originating in a bronchus (one of the main branches of the windpipe). In little more than two months the cancer killed Lawrence, 51, husband and father...
...beat again on being massaged. Dr. Glenn cut through the right pulmonary artery (see diagram) at its beginning near the ventricle, carried the free end around to a hole, half an inch across, cut in the side of the superior vena cava, and stitched it in, like a plumber's elbow joint. Then he tied off the vein near its normal entrance to the auricle. In this way, 30% to 40% of Kent's venous blood (the proportion carried by the superior vena cava) bypassed the right heart completely, went directly to the lungs for oxygenation, then into...
...situation. "The emerging Ph.D," he said, "is not what we mean by an educated man, a man who combines wide-ranging learning with an attitude of simplicity and vividness, and who commingles good taste with an excited curiosity. Rather, he likely has become a sort of expert plumber in the card catalogues or other areas, and neither as teacher nor scholar will he throw off this inhibiting heritage...