Word: 50th
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Congratulating the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital at its 50th anniversary celebration dinner last night, Dean George P. Berry of the Medical School praised the Harvard teaching hospital for combining "compassion and concern for its patients" with "ruthless demands for cold logic" in its scientific research...
...American College of Surgeons-which, like the Brigham. is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year-is composed of specialists who believe that the exercise of their art or craft requires concentrated training. The A.C.S. now has more than 25,000 fellows
Verdun was the most destructive and in many ways the most crucial battle of World War I, a war that, as its 50th anniversary nears, is just now beginning to generate in Europe the same post-mortem re-examinations that the U.S. Civil War centennial recently unleashed here. Author Alistair Horne, an ex-Guards officer and British intelligence expert, has stitched together scores of eyewitness accounts by generals and common soldiers to make vivid sense of the battle's indescribable confusion...
Stuyvesant was neither the first nor the last New World citizen to vent a hatred almost as old as civilization itself. It is therefore all the more impressive that the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith,* which last week celebrated its 50th anniversary with President Kennedy as its honored guest, has in the short span of its lifetime (and with a considerable assist from Adolf Hitler) made a detectable dent in anti-Semitic expression...
Fifty-five minutes after he had fallen to the ground, Peter Fechter's lifeless body was carted away by Communist cops. He was the 50th East German known to have been killed while attempting to breach the Wall...