Word: used
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...University of North Carolina's Archibald Henderson, 70, genial mathematician, historian of the South, drama critic, biographer, friend of Mark Twain and George Bernard Shaw. Henderson bought ink by the quart for his own use, once turned out five books in one year ("When I get tired, I just go from one to another"). His advice to students: "The university offers you, not education, but only the pursuit of education-forever and ever...
...emergencies, the committee issued a one-page Etiquette Concerning the Association Between Boys and Girls for all school kids. Principal pointers: "All associations between the two sexes must be lucid; there must be no secrets . . . Don't confuse friendship with love . . . Avoid physical contact with the opposite sex . . . Use straightforward, refined, beautiful language . . . When visiting one of the opposite sex, you must sit facing each other. It is not good etiquette to sit alongside each other when there is room to sit opposite . . . Refrain from walking after dusk with one of the opposite sex . . . Refrain from bringing up unrefined...
House committees that worked on the bill knew what they wanted-and didn't want. Indiana's Forest A. Harness (House Rules Committee) has charged that public health careerists are trying to force "socialized medicine on America by use of federal employees and Government money." What the U.S. wants in WHO, said he, is "some practical man, rather than some Government career...
...cubic centimeters of blood in the two needles, about a tenth of what the average blood donor loses. By calculating the amount of .nitrous oxide that is absorbed by the brain, he determined the rate of blood flow. Thus he was able to measure the way the brain uses up its chief sources of energy: oxygen and glucose. Already he has demonstrated that unconscious patients use only half the normal amount of oxygen and glucose, that schizophrenics use as much oxygen for their irrational thinking as a sane person does for normal thinking...
...simple method. The tester stood them against a wall, backed away 20 feet, started speaking in a low conversational tone, walked toward them, asked them to indicate when they could hear what he was saying. Does this test-which the Army, the Navy and the Veterans Administration still use-prove anything? No, says Dr. Aram Glorig, director of aural rehabilitation at the Army Medical Center in Washington...