Word: specializer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...swearing-in of a new Congressman is usually a ceremony as perfunctory as a politician's handshake, but this one was something special. The House gallery was packed and a battalion of photographers prowled impatiently outside the chamber. The cause of all the fuss, a suntanned young man with a face that looked familiar, stood somberly in the well of the House and responded to the oath with a quick "I do." The gallery applauded vigorously; House Democrats pushed up to pump the hand of their new colleague. Eleanor Roosevelt sat beaming in the presidential gallery, remembering (she reported...
...sure; it takes too long, and it costs too much ($10,000 for a complete job). But he is cutting down the time and cost. As he collects more records, other startling facts are showing up. For instance, people with hypertension (high blood pressure) generally excrete a special steroid. No one knows why, but Dobriner hopes to find out. The mysterious steroids from the glandular orchestra are apparently concerned with all the changes in the body's cells. "If you want to know about cancer," says Dobriner, "you must also know about old age, hypertension and degeneration." Thus, cancer...
...adds up to the fact that a university is not a government bureau of a business organisation: the conditions necessary for its spiritual prosperity have been determined by centuries of experience. Harvard was one of the first Amerison colleges to become a university; we have therefore a special duty to uphold the university traditions in the years ahead. With your understanding assistance and that of the other alumni I am confident we can succeed...
...Saturday special luncheons will follow the annual AHC business meeting. Provost Buck, Dean David, Dean Fair of the Engineering School, and vice-Dean Livingston Hall of the Law School will speak at special group luncheons devoted to General Education, Business, Engineering, Law, and Medicine. President Conant speaks at the banquet in the evening...
...Fairfield that "New Haven Agents wander in and out of Provost Edgar S. Furniss' office 'every day,'" is typical of the author's inability either to accurately secure or report facts. Actually Provost Furniss is contacted only a few thues during the course of a year by the Special Agents of the FBI and then only in the course of official business growing out of the responsibilities placed upon this Bureau by law or Presidential Directive...