Word: treat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seated on a first-come, first-served basis without having to vacate their places for white passengers; that white bus drivers show more courtesy toward Negro passengers; that Negro drivers be employed on buses traveling mostly through Negro districts. The bus company agreed only to instruct its drivers to treat Negroes more politely...
After a half century of combating the grey squirrel, the experts are ready to give up. It is cheaper to treat the damage, Bell Labs has decided, than to try to prevent it. Said Engineer Smith last week, noting the reports of squirrel assaults on Wisconsin cable: "It's hopeless; we're suspending study of the problem...
...care of mental patients, the best is the cheapest in the long run. This is suggested by official Kansas figures, just released, on a six-year drive to treat all cases of severe mental illness as promptly and intensively as possible. Doctors found a telling comparison between Kansas' experience and that of seven other Midwestern states (Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, Ohio and Wisconsin) that have been slower in getting their intensive-treatment campaigns rolling...
...Admission's Office solution--if it may be called that--is to treat each case individually without any set formula for selecting applicants. It is this policy which College officials and alumni are trying to distribute throughout the country. The results have been gratifying. More applicants are applying each year, to be sure, but more and more of these are qualified applicants--students who have received good guidance and know that Harvard would be a good college for them. Significantly, the school mentioned above has lost almost all contact with Harvard and sends few applicants up here. Many of those...
High-Speed Breeding. Trying to develop a blight-resistant kind of oat, Plant Pathologist H. E. Wheeler of Louisiana State University envied the wholesale methods of bacteriologists. When they want a bacterial strain that is resistant to, say, penicillin, they treat a culture containing millions or billions of bacteria with the drug. Only a few may survive, but the survivors multiply rapidly, and soon the culture is alive with the resistant strain...