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Word: knits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...therefore expensive. Last week the Federal Trade Commission told why, for years, they have been costing far more than they should. Each year, doctors and hospitals buy about $100 million worth of such equipment, and 90% of the business has been cornered by firms in two cozy, closely knit groups: the American Surgical Trade Association and the Manufacturers Surgical Trade Association...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Scalpel Scalpers | 9/1/1952 | See Source »

...tough, he was in great pain from a broken arm when he walked into the red brick hospital building in suburban Neuilly. The doctor saw that it was not a fresh break, asked why he had not come in sooner. "Oh," said the Texan, "I figured it would knit by itself and wasn't important enough to bother the hospital about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: En Cos d'Accident... | 7/28/1952 | See Source »

...Faces. Since World War II, France's top-ranking Reds have alternated between Approach No. 1 (the hard face of a tightly knit corps of barricade-building professionals, adept at sabotage and martyrdom) and Approach No. 2 (the bland face of the Popular Front, designed to win the pennies, votes and tears of the masses). In 1947 French Communist Boss Maurice Thorez, who has been undergoing "medical treatment" in the Soviet Union for the past 17 months, plumped for Approach No. 2. His faithful followers exalted the dove, and sheltered behind such intellectual "fronts" as Physicist Joliot-Curie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Moscow Speaks | 6/30/1952 | See Source »

...budget thriller of grade-A caliber about G-men hunting down H-bomb spies. The fun begins when foreign agents kidnap a nuclear physicist's son and hold him for a ransom in atomic formulas. The cops & robbers story is an old formula itself, but the tightly knit screenplay bristles with tingling action and intriguing mechanical devices used by the FBI operatives to track down the criminals: car-to-car telephones, kinescope, television cameras with zoom lenses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, may 12, 1952 | 5/12/1952 | See Source »

...excellent. A variety of action and discussion, under the firm direction of Irving Yoskowitz, proceed without hesitation for three solid acts. There are times when one thinks he is watching an unrestrained farce, and other times when the developments on stage seem to be part of a tightly knit story sequence...

Author: By Herbert S. Meyers, | Title: Candida | 5/9/1952 | See Source »

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