Word: washing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...CORCORAN Pullman, Wash...
...afternoon last week, workers on B-29s in Boeing's Seattle and Renton, Wash, plants lifted their heads at the sudden blare of loudspeakers. In short, crisp sentences, the bad news came. The U.S. Army, which had planned to cut back Boeing's B-29 production gradually, had suddenly decided to swing the big ax. Instead of 122 B-29s this month, it wanted only 50; instead of 20 next month, it wanted only...
Under the watchful eye of Manhattan's Dr. Abraham Arden Brill, 70, pocket-sized, learned apostle who knew Freud in 1908 in Vienna, the Freudians hold it necessary for salvation that the neurotic sinner be subjected to total immersion (perhaps 200 or more one-hour sessions) to wash him down to the childhood facts behind neuroses and persuade him to face them. This often does a lot of good. The true-blue Freudians have only scorn for what Dr. Brill calls "societies and individuals who offer the public better, cheaper and quicker psychoanalyses." A true Freudian is a monotheist...
...handle germs by slipping rubber-gloved hands into hand holes, under a carefully ventilated glass hood. The automatically sterilized animal rooms will be arranged so that air blows from the worker toward the animals, never the other way. On leaving at night, the worker will shed his laboratory gear, wash, examine his body for ticks in a six-sided mirror, put on his civvies and go home feeling as safe as any germ-worker...
...past, many U.S. teachers have resisted "visual education." One difficulty is making a film which will be equally intelligible to a first-grade city kid in Manhattan and a farm boy in Opportunity, Wash. A more redoubtable objection comes from teachers who believe that films are just another devil's device to take away the personal touch in education...