Word: used
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...began work on The Doctor in 1891 Sir Luke knew it would be a great success: "more terrible, perhaps, but yet more beautiful," than anything else he had done. A careful workman, he first built in his London studio, like a movie set, the cottage interior he intended to use.'Copying that on canvas, and painting the dawn stealing in the prop window, Fildes inserted the characters he had in mind: worried parents hovering in the shadows, their sick little girl feverishly sleeping in the light of an oil lamp, and the bearded doctor leaning over her, kindly...
...A.M.A. proposed that 1) a National Emergency Medical Service Administration be organized to prepare for medical mobilization, 2) medical officers be consulted by the military on war plans, 3) civilian needs be considered in the building of military hospitals, and 4) plans be made for efficient wartime use of doctors.* First step (to be taken by A.M.A.): a card system registering every U.S. doctor as a "minute man." His title will mean what it says...
...Burch and Ray were astonished to discover how sensitive even normal people are. Possible plethysmograph use: spotting the root of a neurotic patient's trouble...
...altitude does not bother the local Indians, who have long since adapted themselves to Andean life. They thrive and raise families in altitudes up to 17,000 feet, which is more than a mile above the altitude at which most U.S. Army airmen are required to use oxygen. Peruvian pilots of Indian blood fly their airplanes as high as 24,000 feet without extra oxygen...
...tools and surplus equipment in the plant. In return, Tucker promised to pay $1,000,000 by Oct. 1, 1946, for two years' rent, and $2,400,000 a year thereafter. Then Tucker fought off Wilson Wyatt's attempt to take the plant away from Tucker and use it for Lustron Corp.'s prefabricated housebuilding (TIME...