Word: retest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beauty of the technique is the exceptional clarity that acridine orange gives to a malignant cell: it glows sharply in a field of normal cells. When the Army team tested 4,995 cervical and vaginal smears with acridine orange, they detected 171 "suspicious" cases compared to 156 in a retest by the Papanicolaou technique. When they later did biopsies on nine of the 15 Papanicolaou "negatives," they found cancer in seven cases. This does not necessarily mean that the new method is more accurate. But it can definitely speed up cancer screening. At Walter Reed, cell-smear staining with acridine...
...through a whirlwind program of reform at Muscatatuck State School in Indiana (TIME, Oct. 18, 1954). Though his budget had been closed, Sasser talked legislators into reopening it, got extra funds for psychologists, trained technicians and essential equipment-an electroencephalograph, an audiometer, etc. Sasser also decided to retest the IQs of his 1,866 charges. In addition to Mayo Buckner, who scored 120, a dozen other patients were found to have IQs over 90 and to be well equipped for life outside. Sasser found jobs for some in local garages and other small businesses...
...most important single criterion. The written word has in this respect always been at a disadvantage when compared with the oral epic. Writers, unlike bards, can test neither the effectiveness of their subject matter nor its mode of expression, for they lack the opportunity to repeat, modify, and retest their work...
While the vaccine program was virtually halted last week, waiting for the Public Health Service to retest and release more of the dammed-up vaccine from manufacturers' warehouses, polio was speeding its seasonal march. Latest figures showed a week's total of 240 cases, the same as a year ago, but almost double the five-year average for the corresponding week. Since the disease year's beginning (April 1), there were 1,226 cases (113 of them after vaccination*), and the same comparisons held. It was too early for the figures to prove anything, but there...
Will the social historian of the mid twentieth century be forced to conclude this ideal was driven to its last retest: the tragic haunts of desperate man? Will he be forced to write that here alone, as it guided by some higher institution, the harlot and the burlesque queen knew perhaps instinctively the ultimate nature of all beauty? The Ideal is permanent; the Fashionable only passing...