Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Amid extreme suspense the Central Executive Committee handed down a joint 5,000-word decision which was puzzling. For whom was it a victory? On one hand it declared: "The joint plenary session has accepted in foundation a resolution for the expulsion of Trotzky and Zinoviev from the Central Committee." But the resolution went on to say: "The Opposition have found it necessary to give way and to renounce a number of their errors and to agree basically (although with excuses) to proposals of the plenary session by giving a declaration. ... In view of this declaration, the plenary session...
Surgeon Pitkin's device, which was described technically in the July number of The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery, consists of a small pneumatic hammer originally designed by the Chicago Pneumatic Tool Co. to grave carvings and letterings on stone and to do delicate riveting. Its over-all length is eight inches, its net weight three and a half pounds. It delivers 3,800 blows a minute, each blow a light tap. But the sum of their rapid succession, when applied to the surgeon's bone-cutting chisel or osteotome, carves away bone precisely to the surgeon's design...
During the last week of September the Koch Cancer Foundation and the American Association for Medico-Physical Research are to hold a joint meeting in Chicago, headquarters of the American Medical Association. This organization holds the other two in active detestation. It finds that they do not come up to its own standards of medical and scientific probity, effectiveness...
Last week the Journal of the A. M. A. in announcing the joint Chicago meeting of those "outlaw" groups condensed all its scorn and contempt into a single paragraph. Under the headline "BIRDS OF A FEATHER" it shouted out names: "No doubt Chicago merits this visitation as a return for its sins. In 1925, the Journal spoke briefly relative to the American Association for Medico-Physical Research, a society organized in 1911 by the outstanding quack of the century, Albert Abrams. The organization was an outgrowth of the American Association for Spondylo-therapy, the term 'spondylo' referring...
...Empress of Australia churned steadily across the Atlantic, last week carrying to Quebec T.H.R. Edward of Wales and his youngest brother Prince George, together with Premier & Mrs. Stanley Baldwin and a joint retinue...