Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Steinberg Tradition. Ana studied medicine at Bucharest University and later in Zurich. There she met and married Marcel Pauker, a short, mustachioed Rumanian student of a good bourgeois family. In the Steinberg tradition, she gave him pamphlets to read and converted him to Marxism. Ana quit medicine, devoted herself entirely to healing mankind in other ways...
...Please Do Something." One recent Thursday, the suppliants in Chiang Ching-kuo's office included a grey-gowned businessman, a woman soothing a black-diapered baby, and a laborer in loose jacket and black cloth coolie pants. Trim in an open-necked, short-sleeved white shirt, Chiang listened like a good ward boss to his visitors' problems. The businessman had a complaint about taxes; the laborer vehemently reported that though the rubber goods plant where he worked was well stocked with raw materials, the boss had decided to close down rather than sell his products...
Raytheon had no such illusions, but its researchers did notice that the microwaves definitely helped certain conditions. They decided that the very short (five inch) waves from the tubes could be used as an improved sort of diathermy, to heat tissues deep in the body...
Sound Effects. Ultrasonic (high frequency) sound waves were reported on by Dr. Julia F. Herrick, of the Mayo Foundation. These violent little waves (far too short for the ear to hear) can have strange effects on living organisms. They vibrate so fast that they leave small cavitations (empty spaces) between them, and these can tear microorganisms, or human cells, to bits...
Getting the Eye. Red Curtice was the heir apparent chiefly because of his spectacular job as boss at Buick. An Eaton Rapids (Mich.) boy, Curtice worked as a short-order cook, pushed a fruit cart, clerked in a woolen mill during high-school days. He worked his way through the Ferris Institute at Big Rapids, and, after graduation in 1914 as an accountant, became a bookkeeper in G.M.'s AC Spark Plug division at Flint. Next year he became comptroller at 21, the youngest executive in the auto industry. After a hitch in the Army in World...