Word: jigsaw
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...graduation, he struck off into law. His trial work during the '30s left him with the habit of pacing up and down while he talks, as if he were before a jury. But Rhinelander soon found the law a bit dull--"no more than fitting together pieces of a jigsaw puzzle." The more abstract fascinations of his former field tugged him back toward Harvard, and just before the war, he took a job in the Classics department...
...patients, Dr. Moore surrounded himself with a team of equally eager young researchers. They worked at Massachusetts General and Peter Bent Brigham hospitals, both connected with Harvard Medical School, where now, at 39, Moore is a full professor. Gradually they chased down other pieces of the patient's jigsaw pattern of progress; so did other teams in other centers. Last week St. Louis' Carl A. Moyer and Manhattan's Henry T. Randall attracted attention with new (and highly technical) reports...
...much harder. Sometimes Sanger and his group would find in their analysis some substance that does not appear in the known chemistry of living things. This, they decided, must be a taillike fragment knocked off some larger fragment. They would shift it around, like a piece in a jigsaw puzzle, until they found a spot where it could be placed to form a familiar compound. Little by little, their picture of the insulin molecule took on detail. At last they were sure they knew where each building block belonged...
...Free Europe, the staffers work in a cluttered, clattering office on the third floor of a Manhattan building, where they translate and analyze news in papers from their homelands, aided by the interpretation of refugees. Specialists on Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Rumania, etc. put together the bits as they would a jigsaw puzzle, in hopes of presenting a mosaic of fact...
Last week, Britain's ailing (duodenal ulcer) Prime Minister left his hospital bed only to face another, deeply worrisome jigsaw puzzle: how to patch up the torn fabric of his Labor Party. He appointed new ministers (see box) to fill the posts left vacant by the rebellious resignations of Nye Bevan and Harold Wilson (TIME, April 30) and the death of Ernest Bevin. Then he tried to rally his followers against Left-Winger Bevan...