Word: joined
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this time Fry was ready to join forces with the State University of Iowa's Neurosurgeon Russell Meyers, who had long been convinced that the way to treat Parkinsonism was by destroying nerve bundles in two tiny parts of the brain (one on each side) called the ansa lenticularis. But he found conventional surgery too crude and damaging: it meant putting a knife through healthy tissues to get at the almost inaccessible ansa lenticularis. He saw the same objections to alcohol injections (TIME, March 21, 1955). Dr. Meyers believed that ultrasound might prove sharper and more precise than...
This year's freshman has a passionate interest in music--although only 11 plan to major in that subject. He plays everything from bagpipes to xylophone. He'd rather join a political organization than a religious organization, and he prefers chess to bridge. He likes good literature and would like to try his hand at writing...
...teams are competing in the first half of a two-round tournament. In February, the top division of each league will join together, while the bottom five teams of each league will compete among themselves. The winners of the two rounds will then play for the overall championship...
...local elections, was taking a calculated risk that an alliance with the Communists would strengthen his party's prospects in Italy's forthcoming general election. Whatever his motives, the turnabout planted what Nenni himself once called "a heavy tombstone" on the last lingering hope that Nenni would join the Social Democrats to give Italy a strong anti-Communist left...
...commodities. Coal will probably get hit, and the Western roads want higher rates for their eastward shipments of farm goods, lumber and lumber products. Even the 25 Class I Southern roads, which have traditionally rebelled against stiff rate increases for fear of losing business to trucks, plan to join in the request, even though they may not seek boosts for pulpwood, tobacco, alcoholic drinks. Finally, all the rails are expected to petition for higher charges for loading and unloading export-import freight, and for permission to charge extra for switching, weighing and unloading domestic freight...