Word: constant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tenure plan, they might roughly have been classed as the assistant professors plus the associate professors. When the Committee of Eight proposed to abolish the rank of assistant professor, it was not proposing to reduce the middle group to that extent. Instead, it intended that this number be held constant, and that for every assistant professorship abolished, a new associate professorship should be created. The money to pay these new associates was, in effect, to come from savings arising out of a cut in the average salary of full and associate professors...
Young surgeons, say Drs. Cutler and Zollinger, may not recognize the dangers in disturbing the mosaic of living cells, because they are usually taught anatomy and pathology on "tough, dead, chemically fixed tissues." Older surgeons may be "irked by the constant emphasis on gentleness." But each cell in an operation must be protected "with exquisite care." With "careful hemostasis [damming of blood] and gentleness to tissues, an operative procedure lasting as long as four or five hours [leaves] the patient in better condition . . . than a similar procedure performed in thirty minutes...
...Handling of tissues with fingers cannot be as facile, gentle or safe as handling with properly designed, delicate instruments." A surgeon should spend his life in "a constant search for better instruments until he emerges finally as an artist, not an artisan." Blood transfusion is "essential in certain disorders, and most valuable in preparing the patient for a major ordeal; but its use following a surgical performance is at least suggestive that a more careful technique would have made this unnecessary...
This first solid German blow to the Royal Navy came on the heels of a communique issued last week to assure the British public that something was being done, some progress made, against the U-boats. "His Majesty's destroyers, patrol vessels and aircraft have been carrying out constant patrols over wide areas in search of enemy U-boats. Many attacks have been made and a number of U-boats have been destroyed. Survivors have been rescued and captured when possible...
...ninety minutes these human cats scratch and claw each other, and while it is quite amusing throughout, the length of the film and the constant repetition of the one and only idea make the picture a trifle boresome. Go to see it, by all means, though, for if you don't you'll be missing one of the treats of a lifetime...