Word: treating
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although you might be tempted to treat the neatly-printed from as merely light reading over a trayful of baked macaroni and cheese, this little questionnaire has been gotten up with an extremely sensible care. The first question, for example, runs: "Are you interested in attending student-produced plays at Harvard? Yes? No?" There's the whole problem. You can circle "No" and concentrate on the macaroni. If you consider yourself a wit, there's plenty of shiny white space and a number of detailed questions that can be answered hilariously with a fine-pointed pencil...
...real name?" He got no clues from his foster mother, Mrs. Mary Baker, a Boston woman who raised him from infancy. But he had a queer notion that his father was big, handsome Dr. Willard B. Segur, who married Mrs. Baker when Harold was seven. The doctor treated Harold better than most men treat their adopted sons. As a youth in Enfield, Mass., Harold often thought the doctor talked to him as though they were of the same flesh & blood...
...Price. In private conversations with the U.S.'s General Lucius D. Clay, Marshal Vassily Sokolovsky had intimated Russia's willingness to 1) treat Germany as the economic unit envisaged in one part of the inconsistent Potsdam Pact and 2) greatly increase the permitted maximum level of German industry, now keyed to a potential annual steel production of 5,800,000 tons. (Wartime peak in 1943: 21,000,000 tons; depression low in 1932: 5,500,000 tons.) For this reversal of their position (previously the Russians had stubbornly pressed for lower industrial output) and for their agreement...
...them: group therapy. Selected groups of a dozen or so patients meet weekly to consider their problems and the Demon Rum. A modification of the Alcoholics Anonymous method (without the religious and confessional aspects), it has multiplied the number of patients that the clinic's limited staff can treat...
...claim that this process can compete economically at present with the vats of slimy blue-green mold which produce natural penicillin. But he points out that synthetic methods usually become more efficient with practice and as they are better understood. Eventually, synthetic penicillin may be cheap enough to treat the poorest patient...