Word: standardize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Sir James Purves-Stewart, 79, neurologist, author of the standard text Diagnosis of Nervous Diseases (nine editions, four translations); in London. An advocate of euthanasia, Sir James hinted in his autobiography (Sands of Time, 1939) that at the request of a mortally ill friend he had hastened her death...
Desiring a reliable standard of smoking habits, Dr. Marjorie Mills Porter and I queried people of both sexes and colors, and all ages above 20, in every tract of Columbus, Ohio, and then checked the findings against representative groups in Cincinnati. We are thus not guessing when we say that coronary victims of all ages are abnormally addicted to tobacco smoking...
...Church, which preaches the brotherhood of man, and the primacy of love, provides for priest and wife in their old age just about half the sum needed to maintain a minimum standard of life. It is conduct such as this, conduct bringing religion into disrepute, which in the age of Jesus was called the desecration of God's Name...
...ally and sometimes as foe, with Eurasia or Eastasia, the only other existing powers. All three of these monolithic superstates have the atom bomb; none ever uses it because continuous, wasteful, indecisive warfare has become economically essential-"to use up the products of the machine without raising the general standard of living...
...work on the cells themselves. The doctors hoped to increase this suspected factor X in the convict's bloodstream by giving it extra work to do in fighting the child's leukemia. It was the first such experiment on human beings, although transfusions of normal blood are standard practice for leukemia victims as a life-prolonging measure. One difficulty had been getting a donor willing to exchange his normal blood for leukemic blood...