Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...aching joints ("growing pains"), nosebleeds, loss of appetite and weight, twitching resembling St. Vitus' dance-are easily confused with the symptoms of grippe and other ailments. Patients may recover from an attack without permanent damage, often without knowing they were really sick. But unless the patient gets skillful treatment, R.F. may .recur...
...most effective treatment is complete rest. But doctors frown on the old idea that an R.F. patient must be treated as a permanent invalid...
...snowmen have not yet tried their silver iodide treatment on full-sized, outdoor clouds, but they intend to soon, with the help of the U.S. Air Forces. In the meantime they have done some figuring. The silver iodide particles need be only one-millionth of an inch in diameter. A billion billion of them will fit in an eggshell. About 200 pounds of silver iodide may be enough to seed the entire atmosphere of the U.S. at the rate of 100,000 nuclei per cubic foot. Adding one pound per hour will keep it seeded...
Gielgud has chosen for his first American season of comedy a play which has the peculiar double aspect of a period piece and also of a classic achievement in language and satire. The revival of two Wilde plays in the United States this season may betoken better treatment for this greatest of wits: if so, the American theater will be adding immeasurably to its richness...
Despite a logically constructed argument leading to his conclusions, by no means the most radical of these held by "progressives," Sternberg falls down in the crucial section of his treatise in transferring the historical treatment to a practical program While he is quite sure that the old capitalism is doomed. Sternberg's prognostication is clouded by his own uncertainties of the future. The flaws of Sternberg's own blueprints allow little optimism on the coming crisis...