Word: visional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were given a lecture on the physiology and hygiene of pregnancy and two classes in how to relax by exercise. Another lecture on labor and delivery and two more exercise classes were given the last month. The last class ended with a tour of the obstetrical di vision, labor and delivery rooms, so the women would know what to expect. Doctors and nurses avoided the words "labor pains," and spoke of "contractions." During delivery, the mother may, if she likes, watch the process in a mirror; she is always told just what is going on, just what will happen next...
...airplane pilot has more complicated problems as he begins to get older. He has to worry about his "functional age." Last week Psychologist Ross A. McFarland of Harvard's School of Public Health told the Gerontological Society in Manhattan that a pilot is as old as his vision, or his "motor skill," or his general ability to adjust to the demands of his job. No exact age limit should be set for pilot retirement, McFarland said, but life in the sky certainly does not begin...
...will be difficult to forget the expression on Mlle. Noro's face when the blind girl returns home from the hospital with her vision restored. It is the most emotional scene this reviewer can recall having seen in a motion-picture. It reaches its peak when the wife introduces herself to the girl, her unwilling rival, with the quite words: "I'm Amelie...
...France, Télévision Française transmits from atop the Eiffel Tower, and is housed in probably the most modern and best designed TV studio in the world. But French TV has been handicapped by one of those illogical conflicts common among the logical French. Manufacturers have refused to go into full-scale production until the government increases its program budget ($11,000 for all of 1948). The government refuses to telecast more programs until more people have sets. Result: fewer than 5,000 sets in all France. Programs include first-run movies, interviews, operas and Parisian...
...Gerald Krueger, in charge of the Illinois cyclotron, noticed just a month ago that he had cataracts in both eyes. His vision is blurred, but he is still able to hunt (last week he shot two rabbits). Dr. Gerhart Groetzinger, 40, now of the University of Chicago, worked on the Illinois cyclotron during the war; he noticed a cataract's dimming effects in his right eye two years ago. It seems to be clearing, and he hopes it will go away without an operation. The fifth victim is a nuclear physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...