Word: technician
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...development would be arrested. Some hydrocephalus cases can be treated with fair success by putting a tube in the spinal canal half way down the back and draining the fluid from the brain through the spinal canal into the urinary system. But this child, son of a Philadelphia industrial technician named John W. Holter. was in a worse plight because he had a barrier between the brain cavity and the spinal canal...
...valve, which would stay in place. Pediatricians, who had just heard Dr. Spitz's report, were hopeful that his technique and Holter's valve would be the answer to hundreds of cases of this type of hydrocephalus each year in the U.S. John Holter quit his technician's job, was devoting his whole time to making the valves that had saved...
Traveling by plane, train, boat and bus, White met a wide cross section of the population and was pleased to hear how many consider TIME their principal source of world news. Said a technician on the Mid-Canada Warning Line, who gets his copy of the magazine by helicopter: "There's a scramble when TIME comes in-and all along the line on the way in other guys have been reading it. Some of 'em cut out stories they like, and that's the worst part. I'll say this, though-it may arrive in tatters...
Ellington's father was first a butler, then a caterer, and eventually a blueprint technician, and he provided well for his family. Duke had art lessons, at which he did extremely well, and piano lessons, which he never mastered. He felt they cramped his style. He worked in a soda fountain after school, and spent his hours at home working out his own method of playing the piano. By the time he was 14, he had started a piece called Soda Fountain Rag, and he played it so many different ways that people thought it was several compositions...
...Erik Helge Thalin, a Swede, and Major Miller Envit, a Dane, jeeped forward to check on the shooting. A Jordan villager, enraged over the recent death of a near relative, opened fire with a Sten gun and seriously wounded Colonel Thalin. Three days later Svend Rasmussen, a Danish radio technician, was killed by an anti-vehicle mine laid on a frontier path used only by U.N. observers...