Word: take
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bernheim of Johns Hopkins. But he does not have much faith in the U. S. system of private medical care. He sees the public asking for more adequate, low-cost medical service, sees national health insurance coming, and he wants his colleagues to prepare for the future, lest laymen take over "the big business of medicine...
...licenses should be granted not for life but for periods of five years. This would allow young graduates a five-year trial period in which to find themselves, would make it necessary for specialists to secure separate licenses to work in their chosen fields. Since they would have to take periodical examinations, doctors would find it fatal to neglect postgraduate study...
...satisfying reward any radio ham hopes for: selection by his fellows of The American Radio Relay League as tops for the year and the annual William S. Paley Amateur Radio Award for contributing most usefully to the American people in 1938 through amateur radio. When photographers went around to take his picture, Ham Burgess squirmed diffidently, said: "Golly, I feel like Clark Gable...
...board's budget $3,000,000, and the State Legislature had cut another $5,300,000. As parents and teachers indignantly protested against "wrecking" of their school system, Manhattan's Borough President Stanley M. Isaacs dramatically demanded that the city's top school officials take a voluntary salary reduction of 5% to 10%, as had other city officials, including Mayor LaGuardia ($22,500), Park Commissioner Robert Moses ($12,150) , Police Commissioner Lewis Valentine ($11,250). The school officials as dramatically rejected his demand. Thereupon Mr. Isaacs ticked off some pedagogical salaries, to the surprise...
...Venetian blind flap, built like a wooden window shade, which gives more lift for slow take-offs and landings than any flap now flying, means that speeds can be made higher without worrying about how fast a high-speed ship will land, how much run it will need to take...