Word: jointedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...activities continue today, at the same pace. At 11 a.m. in Paine Music Hall, the Army and Air Force R.O.T.C. units will hold a joint commissioning ceremony for seniors who have successfully completed the four-year courses, and who have agreed to accept commissions...
...report on gambling, got a bet down on the Derby. At the track, garishly garbed "TicTac" men waved semaphore signals to their bookies as reports on off-course betting came in over the "blower" (telephone). A Yorkshire colt named Rowston Manor and a French challenger, Ferriol, were joint favorites at 5 to 1. Few bothered with an American-bred chestnut colt named Never Say Die. He had won only once as a two-year-old, had run three times this year and never finished first. He went off at 33 to 1. His owner, a New York broker named Robert...
Assigned to the Joint Chiefs of Staff in Washington, Cheshire worked on the problems of dropping the first atom bomb. He watched the bombing of Nagasaki from an observation plane ("I remember thinking that it was dropped a little off target, but of course that didn't matter...
Last week a joint committee of Britain's Medical Research Council and the Nuffield Foundation reported that in cases of early rheumatoid arthritis, the lowly and inexpensive aspirin (a couple of cents a day) can hold its own. In the British Medical Journal they described the treatment of 30 patients with cortisone for a year, matched against 31 on aspirin. Stage by stage, the two groups stayed even Stephen. At year's end, three-fourths in each group were virtually free of pain and disability, and almost half were able to go back to work. The tests have...
Wounded in Action. In Korea, Army Corporal Gib Landell tossed off a smart salute at a passing officer, threw his back out of joint, had to be evacuated to a field hospital...