Word: reportedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Report from Barber Frederick Harvey, whose shop gives George Bernard Shaw a haircut about four times a year: "Mr. Shaw is getting a little thin on top now, but is still remarkably thick at the sides. He is wearing his beard a little shorter than he used to, but I am never allowed to touch his eyebrows." Shaw likes to chat, and even lets the barber get a word in occasionally, but when the talk begins to bore him, he starts tapping his fingertips together. "I know the sign," says Harvey, "and I shut...
...advanced cancer of the prostate. Working with him at the University of Chicago were Physician Gerald M. Miller and Organic Chemist Elwood V. Jensen. With scientific hedging, Dr. Huggins called it "for all practical purposes a simple, cheap and reasonably sure test for cancer." He added that his report pulled together work done by others since 1932, and he hoped that it would not be treated as "sensational." If later work backs up the first tests, it cannot help being sensational...
...clinical laboratory. Dr. Shields Warren, director of the Atomic Energy Commission's Division of Biology and Medicine, and a former president of the association, called it "probably the greatest single advance ever made in the fight against cancer." Dr. Cameron promptly ordered 500 reprints of the Huggins report for distribution to clinics...
Last week, the Baltimore Evening Sun made out a progress report based on a survey the college had just made. Two of the 127 were dead, killed in World War II; the survey found that the survivors seemed perfectly normal and apparently well equipped for life beyond college. The most unusual thing about them was that an unusually large number (55%) were taking postgraduate work in universities around the world, preparing to be doctors, ministers, or professors...
Prospects for the 1950 book don't look any better. The Class Committee appointed two men to head the Album staff. The appointment never was approved by the President of the student Council, one of the people who is supposed to oversee the choice under the Paul Report which the Council adopted last spring. And the two editors, who are without previous College publication experience, have only a skeleton staff with which to begin a job that could take a well-coordinated group more than a year to finish...