Word: specialized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...raking." Correction, please. Make-work may be used in U.S. hospitals when objective is not the product, or service performed, but the effect the activity itself has on the patient's disability, e.g., woodworking may be indicated because the bicycle saw used exercises the leg muscles in a special way; or painting because the canvas serves as a medium for the mental patient to express feelings he can't put into words. On the other hand, a patient may be given contract work (at union rates) under the supervision of an occupational therapist. The real-work type...
...special congressional election in Iowa's Fourth District was important enough to bring Governor Herschel Loveless hurrying down from Des Moines. Loveless, the leading Democrat in a state that was once a Republican stronghold, had a big point to prove: the Democrats are in the Farm Belt to stay. To Loveless, the whole election turned on one big question. "Ezra Benson is the only issue in the campaign," he cried. "Benson is Republicanism...
Give Them Air. About the only thing that the M.P. can call his own is a single locker that is not even big enough to hold an ordinary briefcase. But a special loop of pink ribbon hangs beside the locker-dating from the days when Members were required to check their swords outside. If a Member has a secretary (whose salary he pays himself), he applies to the sergeant at arms for a place where she can work. This might turn out to be in one of the palace's three "secretarial rooms," where 40 or more girls...
...Special Experience. His outfit, Durieux said, finds its membership in the French administration in Algeria, "and in particular, policemen and retired policemen. Above all, there were the Corsicans living in North Africa." Was the French government's Deuxieme Bureau (counterespionage) involved? "I could not comment on the possibility that individual members of the service are in sympathy with us," he said...
...useful, a psychiatrist last week added cancer. Dr. Jacob H. Conn, a psychiatry professor at Johns Hopkins University, told a Manhattan meeting of anesthesiologists that this relatively quick and simple method of relieving pain-often a major manifestation in late cancer-can be used by any physician after brief special training...