Word: unwantedness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Silk to Silver. The man who did most to demonstrate the effectiveness of IUCDS did not live to see the dawn of the new age that he pioneered. German Gynecologist Ernst Gräfenberg, born in 1881, began inserting rings in the wombs of his patients in the 1920s. He...
Research went on elsewhere. The late Dr. Willi Oppenheimer of Shaare Zedek Hospital in Jerusalem, who began working on the devices in 1930, thought that something like the gut used in surgical sutures would be less likely than metal to cause bad reactions. He went back to Gräfenberg...
While hailing the miniaturizing ability of PCMI, the company's scientists think it has another talent that is even more important. Records made by ultraviolet light are easily correctable. When the recording operator or one of his machines makes an inevitable mistake, the unwanted page can be erased by...
Unwanted Praise. Far and away the girls' biggest fan is Daddy, who once drawled about his darling daughters: "I will never have to worry about either girl. Lynda Bird is so smart that she will always be able to make a living for herself. And Luci Baines is so...
Barzun is peevish about so many things: "the mixing of peoples, the spate of democratic and totalitarian harangues, the burst of inventions and new sciences, the spawning of processes, abstractions and manufactured goods, the freedom to play with language that literacy and advertising encourage." He is even upset that people...