Word: probed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Charles W. Detjen '50, who was appointed by the Council early this year to probe the entire Red Book problem, explained yesterday that he "has done nothing on the investigation." His position as Acting Business Manager of of the '52 Red Book and Register prevented him from doing any work on the large scale investigation, Detjen said...
...Medicine recently had an idea for making sure. He put Researcher Edward G. Thurston of Pennsylvania State College to work on a gadget. Result of their collaboration is a surgeon-alarm for gallstones: a tiny quartz crystal enclosed in silver at the end of a slender, hollow silver probe, and attached to an amplifier. The quartz acts like a phonograph pickup; when the probe touches a gallstone, it makes a ping or click-like the noise made when two small rocks are knocked together. The sound can be amplified enough to be heard through operating-room loudspeakers, or tuned down...
...probe is small enough to reach into the ducts that drain the gall bladder and liver. The device was perfected late last August; by last week it had been used successfully in 25 operations. It will not locate stones without an operation, but Dr. Kirby hopes soon to have a gadget that will...
...over the past few years to permit any outside organizations to investigate the Dining Halls Department. He explains that the Dinning Halls are already an efficient and well-run organization. Why then should he object to an investigation by a competent outside organization? It could not be that a probe would be too expensive, for the Dining Halls, made a $49,000 profit last year and Mr. Reynolds will admit that they are only expected to break even. It could not be that the Dining Halls are poorly run because Mr. Reynolds states they are not. Yet the food served...
When scientists send up research rockets to probe the thin upper atmosphere, they generally kiss their instruments goodbye. Few scientific gadgets survive the impact when the spent rocket hits the earth at thousands-of-miles-per-hour speed. Ordinary parachutes are no help because they are generally torn to shreds before they can waft the instruments to earth...