Word: establish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...issue which powered the Soviet propaganda drive was the London agreement to establish a Western German government and international control of the Ruhr (TIME, June 14). Its purpose had been to revive Western Germany's great industrial power for the benefit of all of Europe...
...about a foot high, and looks like a surveyor's transit; its four legs are mounted on a ring fixed to the patient's skull by a plaster cast. At the top is a hollow needle containing a fine electric wire. X-ray pictures are taken to establish the exact position of the thalamus; the legs of the instrument are adjusted to place the needle exactly over it. The patient is anesthetized, and a piece of bone directly under the needle is cut out by conventional surgery. Then the needle is lowered like a well-digger...
Last week, on the fifth anniversary of the Colonels' Revolution, General Rawson wrote: "The objectives were very simple; first, to restore administrative morality; second, to re-establish the country in the community of American nations; and third, to return the country to [political] normality." From Buenos Aires, TIME Correspondent Bill Johnson cabled his estimate of what the revolution has accomplished...
...ancient hearths, he will be better able to fix the date of the "Pinto culture." Bones of American camels, or long-horned bison, for instance, would prove that the camp site was inhabited in the late glacial period. If he finds a fair set of human bones, he may establish Pinto Man's relation to other Early Americans, and to the latter-day low-cultured Indians who lived in Southern California before the white man arrived...
...BOSTON, delegates to the Methodist Quadrennial Conference (TIME, May 10) temperately responded to Bishop Oxnam's ringing call for Christian unity by establishing a "Commission on Church Union" to consider specific proposals. They also adopted a resolution which 1) denounced war as unChristian, 2) urged an attempt at understanding with Russia, and 3) disapproved universal military training. Other decisions: against admitting women preachers to equal standing with men; to raise the church's Public Information budget for the next four years (from $106,000 to $300,000); to spend up to $240,000 on an efficiency survey...