Word: taran
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...from the usual Harvard gathering, but the surroundings and the people made up in taste and distinction what it might have lacked in sweat and effort," said Taran J. Davies...
This is Triptych's third exhibit this term. Organizers, John Goldstone and Taran Davies, plan two more shows before Commencement. The gallery, which normally presents two to three exhibits a semester, has had an active term, Goldstone says...
...World War II Soviet fighter pilots boasted of a maneuver called taran, i.e., ramming an enemy plane when ammunition was exhausted and parachuting out. In the absence of reliable witnesses of such tactics, Western air-force men were apt to suspect the Russians of "shooting a line." Last week a startled group of Westerners saw a Soviet pilot perform the taran and live to lie about...
...Taran began by making a sharp distinction between heart disease in the young and in the aged. In the young, he felt, many more disorders were of a type that could be corrected by surgery; gradually the ravages of rheumatic fever (usually scarring and narrowing of valves) were added to the list. But the process is often long and tedious. Many patients at St. Francis stay for two years, and some may be a year or more in a special room, breathing 50% oxygen. No matter how long their treatment may take, the youngsters at St. Francis can count...
Thanks to penicillin, which makes it possible to prevent many recurrences of rheumatic fever, and to recent advances in surgery, Dr. Taran believes that medical science is well on the way to conquering heart disease in the young. To the surgeons at St. Francis, the new operating theater will be a powerful reinforcement...