Word: properly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...present organization, said the report, is "impotent" in the proper use of medical manpower and hospital beds available. In New Orleans there are five federal hospitals, with a capacity of 1,620 beds, and only 913 patients; in New York City, there are eleven federal hospitals with a capacity of 8,257 beds, only 5,330 patients. Yet federal agencies are planning to build still more hospitals...
...revolting," said a fastidious diner at a West End hotel. "I simply couldn't stomach horseflesh." And with that she went on spreading her toast with the savory pâté maison which only the trade called by its proper name: processed horse...
...more complicated calculating machines, says Professor Wiener, do this too. An electrical impulse, instead of going to its proper destination and quieting down dutifully, starts circulating lawlessly. It invades distant parts of the mechanism and sets the whole mass of electronic neurons moving in wild oscillations...
Podiatrists may now give local (but not general) anesthetics, prescribe sedatives like barbiturates (not narcotics), perform minor surgery. They treat not only corns, bunions and calluses, but also foot symptoms of gout, arthritis and circulation disturbances. One of their most important jobs is teaching diabetics proper foot care, to reduce the chances of gangrene. Podiatrists practice in 40 hospitals in New York State, in about...
Ornithological eyebrows are raised over the conspicuous taxonomic inaccuracy in last Monday's CRIMSON editorial. The owl now ravaging the fat and complacent pigeons of the Yard is a barred owl, whose proper Latin name is Strix varia, or if one wishes to be sub-specific, Strix varia varia. Scotiaptex nobulosa is the handle of the great grey owl, a much larger and rarer creature in these parts and a bird which would hardly be likely to be lured into the big city even by the prospect of a Harvard-educated prey. We realize that this nomenclatural lapse...