Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Young surgeons, say Drs. Cutler and Zollinger, may not recognize the dangers in disturbing the mosaic of living cells, because they are usually taught anatomy and pathology on "tough, dead, chemically fixed tissues." Older surgeons may be "irked by the constant emphasis on gentleness." But each cell in an operation must be protected "with exquisite care." With "careful hemostasis [damming of blood] and gentleness to tissues, an operative procedure lasting as long as four or five hours [leaves] the patient in better condition . . . than a similar procedure performed in thirty minutes...
...character whose sales approach is celebrating children's birthdays over the air. Those he is unable to mention he sometimes calls personally on the telephone. After service like that kids will do anything, even to calling Mother out of the kitchen to hear what Uncle Don has to say about Wesson Oil. In WOR's area, some 25% of all radios are traditionally tuned to Uncle Don at 6 p. m. E. S. T. In the last nine years the Greenwich Savings Bank in Manhattan opened 35,000 Uncle Don accounts. In one winter season with Uncle...
Finding the direction, or bearing, of a U-boat was not enough to locate it. But if each of three patrol vessels, say a mile apart, picked up submarine sounds, determined the bearing, then communicated their bearing readings to the other two by wireless telephone, three direction lines could be drawn on a chart and the point where the lines intersected was the quarry's approximate location. Another such "fix," obtained a few minutes later, would show the submarine's course and speed...
...say We call him unser Shakespeare...
...native State of Maine. There he summers on either of two farms, coastal or freshwater, winters as an English professor at Bowdoin in Brunswick. In all his books Coffin tries to bear witness that poetry, or at least his kind of poetry, begins at home. "Poetry," to Coffin, "is saying the best one can about life." In his early work Coffin tried to say his best about life by loading his lines with mythological, chivalric, floral and religious references. But he soon came under the influence of Robert Frost (TIME, May 15), whose work helped him to see "poetry...