Word: dovetails
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...removed from Claudia, Actress McGuire plays a hopeless romantic who fastens on an earnest young doctor (William Lundigan) and plots an ideal marriage, complete with fireside evenings together. The courtship is punctuated with emergency calls, the wedding is almost interrupted by the telephone, and the honeymoon just happens to dovetail with a medical convention ("How," asks the bride, "did you choose Detroit?"). Dorothy soon finds that she can share her husband's work even less than his time. In the first flush of pregnancy, she is appalled to learn that he passes off her symptoms with the same professional...
...Luckenbach, president of A.B.S., worked out a deal that would divide the world's multimillion-dollar classifying business between them. The A.B.S. dropped its 32-year-old working agreement with the British Corporation Register of Shipping, Lloyd's biggest rival in the United Kingdom, and arranged to dovetail its operations with Lloyd's instead...
There were other tentative agreements. The U.S., Great Britain and France would dovetail the economies of their occupation zones in Western Germany. A federal government, protecting states' rights but allowing for "adequate central control," was proposed as the best ultimate form of rule for a unified Germany. These agreements will be translated into specific clauses at another conference in April. Then the French will probably come into a new administrative unit, Trizonia; it will control 69% of Germany's population, a higher proportion of its industrial plant...
...work table in his library at Chartwell. Early next year, it is hoped. Vol. I (probably covering the period up to Dunkirk) will appear in a weekly series in LIFE, and daily installments in the Times. Other installments will probably follow at six-month intervals, timed to dovetail with book publication by Houghton Mifflin...
...General Education must be the goal of the secondary school as well as the university. What the Committee has failed to do is to take steps to publicize the University's position on secondary school curricula and to initiate specific readjustments of high and prep school programs to dovetail them with the college plan...