Word: method
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...groups should be more extensively tried out by the tutorial boards of the various departments, and that their possibilities and limitations for the purposes of each department should be more clearly determined. Clearly, however, they are not an adequate substitute for individual instruction, which must remain the basic tutorial method...
...much has been expected from the modern advances in the diagnosis and treatment of established cancer. Too much should not be expected from the prevention of cancer. ... It is certain that efforts in this field have thus far been quite desultory and inefficient. . . . [No] new curative agent or method will be found in the near future. . . . The only successful methods of treatment [are surgery, radium applications or X-ray], and this means removal, not cure in the real sense. Cancer is the greatest of all the hazards of living. . . . It will probably always remain in this position of importance...
Water for Cancer. X-rays wreak their destruction on cancer cells more effectively if water is injected into the tumor. For that reason, and because of new experiments with synthetic radioactive substances in solution, doctors would like to have a good method of injecting liquids. Hypodermic needles have not been entirely satisfactory. Dr. Gioacchino Failla, physicist of New York City's Memorial Hospital, announced a new method of getting fluids into cancers located near the body surface. The fluid is shot in a tiny, powerful jet from a diamond (to prevent rapid wearing away) orifice two-thousandths...
...Public Powower Ickes, last week's decision was a clear mandate for San Francisco to go into the distribution business-"the proper method for meeting the requirements of the Raker Act." The citizens' seven previous refusals, said he, were "based in some measure upon misinformation." Instead of a paltry $2,300,000, "the city would double its income" by selling the power itself. But in San Francisco the decision caused a crisis. Mayor Rossi, his gall bladder and budget both upset, from his sickbed talked of canceling pay raises for city employes, increasing the tax rate 28?. Citizeness...
...counting of the poll is as fast by the new method as is hoped, the balloting may include all classes and all courses next year, not just Freshmen and their courses, he predicted. Last year the time taken for the counting of ballots for the Cony Guide took more than two weeks, but Tyng hopes to cut that down to a few days this year...