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Word: roome (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sunny room at Smiths Hospital, Henley-on-Thames, England, children sat at small tables last week putting colored pegs into holes. Except that the children were psychotics-mostly the scarred offspring of disturbed parents-the room had all the friendly calm of any normal kindergarten. What made it doubly so was the children's custodians, placid-looking young women in their early 20s, who spoke little but seemed unusually affectionate. They sat with their arms around the children, frequently hugged and kissed them. It was no chore to the women; they were all mental defectives, who think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A Child's World | 12/8/1958 | See Source »

...John of Gaddesden (probably Chaucer's "verrey parfit practisour"). John went so far as to publish a list of ailments that, financially, were beneath his notice. His gaudiest feat: curing Edward I's son of smallpox by swaddling the boy in scarlet robes, confining him to a room hung with scarlet drapes, claiming that the color's influence turned the trick. The 17th century court physician had less brass. When France's young Louis XIV caught syphilis, the doctors were too spineless to tell him (or anyone else). They also disguised the Sun King...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: God Save the King | 12/8/1958 | See Source »

...into a machine from the outset, said Dr. Gill. The machine would have to learn them by long observation and training. The music-composing machine might learn-by-doing right from the start, but an "untrained" machine should not be put in charge of an airway system or operating room. It must first be permitted to watch human surgeons or traffic controllers. When it reached the human level of experience and intelligence, it could take over. From that point it should grow better and better, far surpassing humans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Machines with Experience | 12/8/1958 | See Source »

...arched bridge and 82 tons of imported Japanese stones, created by Japanese-American Sculptor Isamu Noguchi. Mexico's Rufino Tamayo, with his mural of Prometheus, gave viewers one of the few art works with a recognizable theme. Unfortunately, it was set in the rear of the main commission room, visible to delegates only on leaving. Staff members also discovered some unexpected rough spots in the building. Items: no safety hooks for window-washers faced with more than 1,000 floor-to-ceiling glass panes; some hot spots where the sunshades failed to do their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Palace of Concrete | 12/8/1958 | See Source »

...practically any industry." For 17 months at American, company and union have been feuding not only over the third man but over hefty demands for higher pay, shorter hours for pilots (65 in the air instead of the present 85 a month), fatter retirement benefits, increased meal and overnight room allowances. The big item is pay. The average DC-7 captain gets $19,221 a year: American is offering $22,743 to fly turboprop Electras and a 44% hike to $27,650 annually for 707 jets. The Air Line Pilots Association has yet to make a firm counteroffer, except that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Strike-Bound Airlines | 12/8/1958 | See Source »

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