Word: wordings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...talk of the last 15 years which had to be sloughed off for the sake of something really important at the core." The jig isn't up: "this way they won't label me a planner and I can get my work done." People got awfully excited about a word. Gaus is a scholar alive with excitement about the thing happening...
...answer to the question on TIME'S [Sept. 15] cover-"Who wants the New Look?"-is appropriately contained in the word printed immediately beneath: "Business...
Half the people who call on doctors are sick in mind as well as in body. To describe their trouble, doctors now use the word psychosomatic (from the Greek psyche, mind, and soma, body). Last week a top-rank woman practitioner of psychosomatic medicine, Dr. Flanders Dunbar of Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons, published a fascinating book on the subject (Mind and Body; Random House...
Into the town hall of Oxford, Mass. (pop. 4,983) moved a team of doctors and nurses. They set up a laboratory in the basement, and began to take blood and urine tests of Oxford's citizens. Soon word spread through the town that the U.S. Public Health Service had chosen Oxford (birthplace of Nurse Clara Barton) as a typical town for the first intensive U.S. hunt for undiagnosed diabetes...
...shoulders, John Toner, the brains behind the T, is looked upon by Donelli as the one person who can make or break this ball game. Toner has come a long ways since he was third string quarterback a year ago. He's only a sophomore and if Donelli's word is good, Toner's name will be more than whispered for All-American honors before he leaves school...