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...chairmen will select approximately ten men for their committee. Most of these will have outstanding ability in one specific field but two or three men also are wanted with diversified activities to help "integrate" the discussion. "Anyone who believes he is capable or who knows of a likely candidate should contact me," Poskanzer said...
...brave new committee, which has an indirect connection with the Council will be co-chaired by David C. Poskanzer '50, who also ran the group which produced the Poskanzer Report, and Dominique Wyant '50. Sometime next week they will select ten "outstanding men" from the University, not necessarily undergraduates, to make up the small group...
...same technique with deafness and paralysis. In some kinds of paralysis, he theorizes, the patient could be equipped with an apparatus (as a substitute transmission station for damaged nerves), worn at the hip or knee and turned on or off by the patient. A manually operated switchboard might select such a desired motion as walking...
From here the "last" and the measurements are consulted in making a pattern for cutting out the leather uppers. The trigonometry involved would do credit to a Math 1 student. At this point, Mama's work begins; she cuts and sews the uppers to the required size. The selection and cutting of the upper is a difficult process, since all leather will stretch in one direction. The problem is to select a piece of leather with the minimum of stretch, and then cut it so that the stretching will be in the least detrimental direction...
While Waksman waits to set up his institute with streptomycin money, the search for better antibiotics goes on. The requirements for a new antibiotic seeking membership in the select club are getting stiffer all the time. Explains Waksman: to qualify, a new drug must kill some kinds of germs more effectively than any drug now known; it must work well in the body and not damage the body; it should be stable and soluble in water...