Word: specialist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...definitely not inevitable, and there is good reason to believe that watching 3-D movies, properly photographed and properly projected, is easier on the eyes than watching a conventional "flat" or 2-D movie . . . Before a meeting of our society . . . Reuel A. Sherman, Bausch & Lomb's occupational vision specialist declared that various forms of 3-D have been used since 1895 for therapeutic and visual training purposes, and he predicted that technically good 3-D movies will have a profoundly beneficial impact on vision...
...member of the Securities & Exchange Commission. He will take over the chairmanship. Son of a well-to-do family (Demmler Brothers Co., distributors of sheet-metal products), Ralph Demmler attended Allegheny College and the University of Pittsburgh, was admitted to the Pennsylvania bar in 1928, and became a specialist in corporate and banking law. No stranger to SEC procedure, Demmler worked with the commission on cases involving Pittsburgh's Mellon National Bank and Trust Co. and the Duquesne Light Co., handled all the legal matters for the Equitable Life Assurance Society's development of Pittsburgh...
When Child Specialist Helen Taussig and Surgeon Alfred Blalock (after years of experiments on animals) worked out a solution to the blue-baby problem, their proposal looked daring indeed: to revamp the arteries close to the heart so that more blood is pumped to the lungs to get its full quota of oxygen. It worked. Within a year, 80 of the blue boys and blue girls operated on at Johns Hopkins went home a healthy pink, and were soon able to run and play as if nothing had ailed them. The children thus saved from crippling and early death...
...Pierce Theobald, an ear, nose and throat specialist, added another count to the indictment. One kind of deafness is increasing, he believes, as a result of the haphazard use of antibiotics in colds. If there is a middle-ear infection, the drugs may mask it, and then part of the ear fills up with fluid anyway. If this is not drained, it may solidify and impair hearing. The only solution, said Dr. Theobald, is to puncture the eardrum and remove the substance...
...student of Greek history and a specialist in the problems of general education. At Lawrence College he set up a required course for all freshmen in which through the study of "great original works which have affected civilization and still affect it," students were brought in contact with problems in the five major fields of learning: the social sciences, philosophy, religion, natural sciences, and the arts...