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Word: directs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There is no direct practical application at the present time, however, for anti-matter," Chamberlain pointed out, "but the discovery will help us a great deal in understanding nuclear structure." Although no important discoveries have been made with the anti-proton in the last three years, he felt confident "important discoveries" would be made in the near future...

Author: By Claude E. Welch jr., | Title: Visiting Professor Receives Nobel Prize | 10/27/1959 | See Source »

...back as the 14th century, and perhaps before, Bavarian males have tested each other by the simple, direct method of sitting on opposite sides of a table, inserting their middle fingers in a leather loop and pulling. Well ballasted by beer, a hefty Bauerbursche (farm boy) can jerk an opponent belly-first across the table. At wedding receptions and opulent wakes, muscular champions of Fingerhackln (finger wrestling) customarily duel for a girl's favors. Last week in the market hall at Rosenheim, 76 burly Bavarians met for the Fingerhackln championship of the entire state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Finger Exercise | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

...operating theater there was a quartet for each twin: senior surgeon and assisting resident, anesthesiologist and scrub nurse. Standing by were a pediatrician to direct replacement of blood and other fluids, a clinical pathologist, a cardiologist with a heart-lung machine, a bone-and-joint surgeon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Separation Surgery | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

Aaron noted that the role of the director was often the hardest to fill in under-graduate productions. He hopes that workshop members will gain enough experience to direct experimental, and even regular productions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HDC, Aaron to Open Seminar in Directing | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

James M. Henderson, assistant professor of Economics, has resigned, effective at the end of the term, to direct a four-year study which will attempt to find methods of revitalizing the lagging economy of the Upper-Mid-West...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Henderson Resigns To Study Economy Of Mid-West States | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

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