Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pedicle flaps from the arm are sometimes attached to the stump of a partly destroyed nose as the first step in its reconstruction. They are then severed from the arm. This gives the patient a "trunk" several inches long. One man disappeared after this stage of the operation, did not show up again for years. Then he explained: he had made a living in a circus sideshow as "the elephant man." With the flap tailored as planned, the nose looked normal...
...whose preferred stockholders were due $106 million in dividend arrears. In short order, Deramus trimmed the Katy's payrolls, ordered economies in everything from telephone calls to recordkeeping, even abolished his public-relations department at the St. Louis headquarters. Last week Railroader Deramus took the boldest step yet to cut costs...
...This step is part of a Departmental effort to encourage more independent study. The Department voted ten days ago to permit juniors in Groups I and II to take two full years of History...
...what a free press ought to do and be" is constantly changing. What is the mid-century role of the press? Says Williams: "Not that of a judge but that of a minefield through which authority, great and small, and at every level of policy and administration, must step warily, conscious always that a false step may blow it up. The estate of journalism is a dangerous one. It exists as a force in society to remind all those who govern that systems are made...
...action of chlorophyll, on which plant, animal and human life depends. They knew that chlorophyll by itself has no photosynthetic power. Only when it is contained in extremely small structures found in green leaves can it use the energy of light to release hydrogen from water, the first step in photosynthesis. The orderly pattern of the molecules in these bodies, say Drs. Melvin Calvin and Power B. Sogo of the University of California at Berkeley, is the key to the process...