Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...typical work week for a TIME bureau head-beyond satisfying TIME'S editorial queries-would be likely to include visits from such assorted personages as i) a small businessman seeking publicity for a new type of plumbing joint he had invented, 2) a Government investigator inquiring into the political complexion of the Kansas City Star, 3) a writer looking for special material for his novel, 4) a paste salesman wanting desk space and a telephone, 5) the owner of a coal mine in Alberta on the lookout for unemployed coal miners; telephone calls from all sorts of people asking...
After months of negotiations, Great Britain and the U.S. this week signed the pact for joint economic administration of their zones of Germany. The British gave way on the only really difficult point, agreed to share the cost on a 50-50 basis with the wealthy...
...pact presented Russia (and France) with a choice: come into a genuine joint control of Germany, or stay out and let the British-U.S. combine run the part of Germany that counts most...
Plans were announced also for two other discussion groups, one dealing with science and the other with the humanities. Although no date for the first meetings has been scheduled as yet, eventually, all three groups will convene bi-weekly, and every fourth meeting will be a joint meeting. The steering committee has made arrangements for subgroups to engage common rooms in the Union and discuss more specialized topics...
Most spectacular of the proofs, from the student body's point of view, was the joint demonstration by the Harvard Dramatic Club and the Veterans Theater, who teamed up willy-nilly to illustrate the undeniable fact that there is now no available stage from which a college-sized organization can operate with any degree of comfort. Hampered by University restrictions on what can and what cannot be done to the physical properties of Sanders Theater, the HDC had to work something of a seene-shifting miracle, operate without benefit of a curtain, and speak their lines in an acoustical monstrosity...