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Word: put (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Between corridor and operating suite is an "exchange area." Everybody who passes this must first put on conductive booties over his shoes. Inside, he dons sterile cap and gown and scrubs (with antiseptic) for ten minutes. Patients, even on stretchers, get fresh sterile coverings and masks at the door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Danger in the Hospital | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

...official Soviet announcement was a mixture of specific information and cagey reticence. "The launching was done," it said, "by means of a multistage rocket carrying an automatic interplanetary station. After reaching the necessary speed, the last stage of the rocket put the station into the required orbit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Lunik III | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

After a rigorous examination in Jewish law, circumcision (eased with local anesthesia), and a symbolic cleansing immersion in a pool, ex-Shintoist Kotsuji last week became a full-fledged Jew with (as one rabbi put it) "all its rights and all its troubles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Japanese Jew | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

...believe that a return to the rigid fiscal discipline of the gold standard would act as a brake on inflation by preventing governments from overspending, head off world recessions by doing away with the excesses that lead to them. A full gold standard, as they see it, would also put a damper on sudden expansions of credit not backed by gold, help stabilize prices, and step up the flow of capital-and thus international trade-by making all currencies freely convertible into gold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GOLD STANDARD: Should the U.S. Go Back to It? | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

...hopes to seduce Mary while Shelley is away from home; or when Shelley gets a swimming lesson and plunges straight to the bottom, tempted by death and an answer to the Great Mystery. Despite such antics, Mary's father, husband and friends were schooled-and schooled her-to put intellect above all else. When her first daughter, a premature baby, died, she noted in her diary: "Find my baby dead. Send for Hogg. Talk. A miserable day. In the evening read The Fall of the Jesuits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mrs. Shelley Plain | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

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