Word: uses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...National Councils of Catholic Women and Men and the Catholic Physicians' Guilds of New York sprang to the support of Dr. Jacobs. New York's Mayor Robert F. Wagner bucked the question to the hospital department. "As a practicing Catholic," Wagner said, he is opposed to the use of contraceptives in city hospitals, but "this is a medical matter-I leave that to their judgment...
...cases, but the numbers of people undergoing analytic treatment will multiply tremendously. As Practitioner Westman put it: "In the future we shall be analyzing the supposedly healthy people who are walking around today, as well as the obviously disturbed ones. We hope to reach the point where we shall use psychology before a breakdown has occurred." But he did not see the analyst as a god. Said he: "Analysts are human, wear pants and go to the toilet like everybody else. Naturally, they will have to be analyzed more and more to understand their own problems...
...Jacksonville. The easygoing lefthander from Puerto Rico had control trouble with his blazing fast ball, was sent to Wichita to broaden his line of pitches. Explains Pizarro in broken English: "I got screwie [screwball] now. Learn screwie from Ruben Gomez [of the Giants] in winter league in Puerto Rico. Use it all time now." Back with Milwaukee less than a month. 21-year-old Juan Pizarro parlayed his fast one and the "screwie" into three victories, an" ERA of 2.09. Last week he beat Cincinnati...
...Theodore Rousseau Jr., the Met's curator of European paintings, deciding to hang them there, launched a campaign to persuade collectors to use the museum as their storage room. "I began asking, 'Are you going away this summer?' and got responses. So I took a gallery, cleared it out and put the paintings in." The Met has continued this policy every summer, given special billing to six summer collectors' shows since 1949. This year's, on view this week in eight newly added Met galleries, is twice as large as any of the past...
...Marie Curie, Frederic Joliot added their name to his own. With his physicist wife, who died of leukemia in 1956, he won the Nobel for discovering that radioactivity could be produced in the laboratory in elements which were not naturally radioactive. This first opened the possibility of widespread use of radioactivity in biology, medicine and other scientific fields. A resistance fighter during World War II, Joliot-Curie became French High Commissioner for Atomic Energy in 1946, was dismissed from the job in 1950 because of his Communist affiliations...