Word: strangeness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Human Laboratory. The most important of Sloan-Kettering's laboratories is the great hospital next door, including the Strang Prevention Clinic. Dr. Rulon W. Rawson, head of the Division of Clinical Investigation, explains that, after all, human patients are the best source of information about human cancer. Clinical investigation is a two-way street. Observation of patients, especially their reaction to treatment, gives clues for researchers to follow. When the laboratories develop some new method applicable to human beings, the hospital is the only conclusive place...
Alarm clocks then began ringing, and a siren wall went up. The loudspeaker replied to this with, "Communication between entries of Lowell House is strang verboten." Firecrackers started exploding, and a searchlight from a fourth or fifth story room began to sweep the courtyard...
...opulent brick-and-stone "campus" rising near the East River. Founded in 1884,* Memorial is the oldest U.S. cancer hospital. But its expansion to a university began only two years ago, is still under way. Next door to its eight-year-old, Rockefeller-financed main building is its new Strang clinic (for prevention and early detection of cancer). Nearly finished: the $4,000,000 Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research. Also abuilding: a 300-bed municipal cancer hospital, which Memorial will operate. Among Memorial's ambitious plans: further additions, new equipment, a $200,000 Betatron (to be used...
...addition to relief from the 50-50 agreement, the British delegation, headed by Sir William Strang, was expected to ask Washington for relaxation on certain clauses in the loan agreement. The British wanted to continue empire trade preference and to protect dwindling dollar balances by restrictions on the convertibility of sterling into dollars. At best, such concessions could only relieve, not cure, Britain's economic ills. The circle of economic conferences came back to Paris' Grand Palais and the Marshall approach because of one appalling fact about the postwar world economy: Britain and other nations last year bought...
...making. Typical of Russia's attitude on the matter was a Gusev disquisition on the "states directly concerned" in the German peace. After all, mused he ("just thinking aloud"), could countries thousands of miles away from the war theaters really understand the war? Britain's Sir William Strang cracked back: what, for instance, about Canada, which had declared war on Germany in 1939-without waiting to be invaded first? Gusev...