Word: severance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...surgeon's knife can reach into the brain to sever the tensions which underlie a psychopathic personality. This drastic method of rescuing psychotic patients from complete insanity is not exactly a new invention. It has been developed in Lisbon by Dr. Egas Moniz since 1935. But now two men who have pioneered this treatment in the U.S.-Neurologist Walter Freeman and Neurosurgeon James W. Watts of George Washington University-have published a book, Psychosurgery (Charles C. Thomas; $6), based on their work. Some 300 people in the U.S. have had their psychoses surgically removed, Dr. Freeman revealed last week...
Dealing with the time elements of production, the second course here, "Motion and Time Study" is designed mainly for foremen and supervisors. The instructor of the class, which will be given in Sever, is Howard W. Calverley of the General Electric Company...
WASHINGTON--President Roosevelt tonight accused French Chief of Government Pierre Laval of doing Hitler's the United States, but declared that bidding in breaking off relations with "no act of Hitler, or any of his puppets, can sever relations between the American people and the people of France...
Voting tables will be open from 9 until 5 o'clock both days in the Houses, Dudley, Widener, Sever, Harvard, and Emerson, and the club, George R. Hooper '45, chairman of the nominating committee announced last night...
According to the present plan voting booths will be set up in various parts of the University. There will be polling places in all the House dining halls, in the Common room of the Dudley Commuter's center, in Sever and Harvard halls, and in all the undergraduate clubs...