Word: uses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...never seen an "iron lung" respirator in his life. Last week he was asked to make one in a hurry. Muncie's Ball Memorial Hospital, which owned the only iron lung in three counties, suddenly had 28 polio (infantile paralysis) patients on its hands. That lung was in use when Rue Steel, an eight-year-old boy who urgently needed a respirator, was brought in. Hospital Superintendent Nellie Brown asked Reichart if he could turn out an emergency...
...expected about 300,000 to sell this year-nothing like the 1,000,000 sold to flappers and friends in 1925, but good as compared with the 40,000-to-60,000 average in the early '40s. One explanation for the demand: frog-voiced Arthur Godfrey's use of the uke on his television show...
...shares his course with three other professors, each with his own ideas on teaching science to the layman. Conant's device is to use a sort of case method. If pupils can understand how science solved specific problems in the past, he thinks, they will soon understand the scientific method in general...
...Herald-American, brought suits in Chicago's Federal District Court on behalf of two other members. This week the society announced that two more suits would be filed, boosting the grand total in damages sought to $2,900,000. If they collect, the plaintiffs said they would use the money to make a movie depicting the medical advances achieved through vivisection. Said famed Physiologist Anton J. Carlson, president of the society: "Medical science . . . refuses to be the goat any longer for the ugliest and most baseless vilification campaign of our times...
Ford went right to work. His Middle East man, Walter McKee, after talks with Israeli purchasing agents, sounded out the possibilities of an assembly plant near Haifa. The plant would import U.S. foremen and technicians to train unskilled Israeli labor in U.S. production techniques, wherever possible use Israel-made goods for parts...