Word: appendix
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...What Junk?" In Hitler Directs His War, Bryn Mawr History Professor Felix Gilbert has edited the fragments with main attention to the temper and character of Adolf Hitler, reduced many technical and tactical sessions to synopsis treatment in an appendix. One of the first things that struck Editor Gilbert was the way Hitler's personality dominated the conferences-and the vindictive "meanness" of the man's mind. One example: his treatment of hard-pressed Field Marshal von Kluge, whom he called back from the Eastern Front on July 26, 1943, to inform him that some of his Panzer...
...must say," McDonough later observed, "that the tone of Mr. Truman's reply was somewhat startling." But Congressman McDonough contented himself with appending a few observations to the letter and quietly inserting the whole correspondence in the Congressional Record. There the matter would have rested, buried in the Appendix, if a free-lance journalist had not spotted it and passed it on to the New York Daily News's able hatchetman, John O'Donnell. Last week, Columnist O'Donnell ran the full text of the correspondence. A few hours later, Harry Truman's gratuitous remarks...
Since the dawn of modern medicine the vermiform appendix has seemed to be a completely useless organ. This week, the University of Chicago's Dr. Leon 0. Jacobson suggested that a use for the appendix may have been found...
Experimenting on a rabbit, Dr. Jacobson found that when the spleen and appendix were protected with lead, the animal survived what would otherwise have been a fatal overdose of X rays. The undamaged spleen and appendix make enough blood to enable the damaged tissue to recover...
...which have the power to manufacture blood may contain a regulating hormone. He will try to isolate the hormone, in the hope that it may speed recovery from radiation sickness and permit X-ray patients to take heavier doses. Among the blood-forming organs he would include the "useless" appendix...