Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Deputy Commissioner of Health in New York City until 1946, Rutstein is medical director of the American Council on Rheumatic Fever, and a consultant to the joint research and development board of both the War and Navy Departments...
...Pakistan or Hindustan or even for independence, except when his leaders told him. He was scarcely aware who ruled him. Recently a tattered Hindu peasant helped to repair a blowout on a car in the Punjab. Asked what he thought of the Government in New Delhi (now a temporary, joint Hindu-Moslem Cabinet, operating under viceregal veto), he replied, "I never heard...
Just 25 years ago the three revolutionaries had joined in a manifesto whose shot was heard round the art world. The signers declared joint war on easel painting, which they regarded as essentially aristocratic because it ended up on rich people's walls. Their own murals, on the other hand, would have "beauty for all, beauty that enlightens and stirs to struggle." But for all their puffing, and for all their sometimes great murals, the School of Paris and its effete paintings were not wiped off the earth. In fact, Mexico's new generation is being lured away...
...Hollywood, Audie Murphy, 23, World War II's "most-decorated soldier," made a joint announcement with Actress Wanda Hendrix, in Hollywood's early-bird style. The announcement: they were about to announce their engagement...
...went to Reno in 1943 to end her brief wartime marriage to a Navy C.P.O. While she waited out the six weeks that make divorce-seekers legal residents of Nevada, she got a job behind the roulette wheel at Harold's Club, Reno's immense, noisy gambling joint which spends some of its million-dollar profits to endow scholarships at the University of Nevada (TIME, June 17, 1946). She also enrolled at the university, which is only a few blocks from Harold...