Word: treat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Neurotic Exchange. Bell Laboratories' Dr. Shannon has a similar story. During World War II, he says, one of the Manhattan dial exchanges (very similar to computers) was overloaded with work. It began to behave queerly, acting with an irrationality that disturbed the company. Flocks of engineers, sent to treat the patient, could find nothing organically wrong. After the war was over, the work load decreased. The ailing exchange recovered and is now entirely normal. Its trouble had been "functional": like other hard-driven war workers, it had suffered a nervous breakdown...
...compulsion to sum up the half-centuries which overpowers newspaper and magazine editors every fifty years demands more audacity than good sense. Only a being from another planet could hope to remain sufficiently unmoved by the great forces and events engulfing mankind to treat the most recent five decades with any degree of unconcerned ness. And that's just what I am--a being from another planet. Just which planet I'm not prepared to say, as my long since civilized home does not wish visitations by adventuresome barbarians...
...Quotations. When nobody at the Bangalore garrison could tell him what the word "ethics" meant, he began to read in search of answers. It was a long quest, for Churchill was to spend his life in politics and to learn with his friend John Morley that "those who would treat politics and morality apart will never understand the one or the other...
...physicians who have been skeptical about using PAS (para-aminosalicylic acid) to treat tuberculosis are being converted. Three doctors on the staff of the Arroyo Del Valle Sanatorium of Alameda County (Calif.) report in the current Stanford Medical Bulletin that 150 patients in the San Francisco Bay area have had PAS treatments with "very promising" results...