Word: closely
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Last year the Department sponsored the spectacular five-day intravenous drip treatment for syphilis (TIME, April 22). It is now analyzing 25,000 records of heart-disease cases, keeping close tabs on youngsters with rheumatic heart disease, No. 1 killer of school children. Next big problem, says Dr. Charles Frederick Bolduan, Di rector of Health Education, is control of diabetes. Over 75,000 New Yorkers are diabetics...
Although Mr. Anthony's grammar is frequently dubious, and his off-the-air accent is close to pure Broadwayese, he is convinced that he is far ahead of his professional rivals. Since he began, he has passed the ex-convict Marion Sayle Taylor (The Voice of Experience) and left his "Good Will" predecessor A. L. Alexander far behind. Mr. Alexander is now running something called the Board of Mediation over Manhattan's WHN, and Mr. Anthony regards any comparison between him and the mediator as preposterous. As a matter of fact, he thinks he is essentially more experienced...
...late F. Donald Coster (Philip Musica) of McKesson & Robbins always took a close personal interest in his auditors, Price, Waterhouse & Co. He first hired the firm in 1925; used their audits to get respectable banker backing; always saw that the sales and inventory records (i.e., pieces of paper) of his fictitious crude drug department were in A-1 shape...
...much fervent fans owe to these and other experts of the lens is Holly wood's well-guarded secret. But many an idol stays at the top of the heap because of their magic. They know they must avoid oblique angle close-ups of Clark Gable so that his sugar-bowl ears won't predominate. They quickly learn that a new comer like Ingrid Bergman must be shot from the left as her face is expressionless from the other side. They are careful with close-ups of older beauties like Claudette Colbert and Marlene Dietrich, keeping them motionless...
Cases involving landlord and tenant are the most common, with divorce and separation running close seconds. Five cases of libel and slander, and two involving estates of incompetents were handled last year...