Word: xray
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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University education is mediocre, due first to overemphasis on sports, second to lack of a scale of values. The practical-minded American law schools turn out lawyers but no jurists. Medical schools emphasize laboratory and Xray, not European clinical methods of study...
...Navy had not flown far inland. The blank space beyond the South Pole was still the haziest, most mysterious area on anyone's map. It might be a featureless ice plain or it might be ridged with peaks higher than Mt. XRay...
Cancer was also on the minds of U.S. radiologists (Xray specialists) as they also convened in Chicago last week. From Dr. Milton Friedman of New York University, late of the Army, they heard of the discovery of a fantastic result of cancer of the testes...
...XRay. Sir Walter Scott, said Mark Twain, did "more real and lasting harm" with his "sham grandeurs" than "any other individual that ever wrote." Today, few Americans suspect how many thousands of native place names are directly or indirectly Sir Walter's. "Poetic" names built around glen, dale, vale, hurst, mere and burn broke out like a rash in the late 1800s; soon they enclosed many cities "like a ring of outer fortifications," protecting them from such vulgarisms as creek, gap, bottom and bluff. "Even if a city-dweller could escape moving to the suburbs [of Larchmont, Glen Cove...
...depth is to measure the overlap of its silhouette, and compare that with the overlap of some body landmark, preferably a bone. The basic principle of this depth-determination technique is as old as geometry. But the Kleins hope that Army & Navy surgeons can use their stereoscopic Xray...