Word: unraveling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Applauded Episcopal Bishop Henry Knox Sherrill, president of the National Council of Churches, for a speech in which he declared that no single church body can, by itself, unravel the "disorder, chaos and confusion" of the times...
...second time Bill Martin had moved in to cut a knot too tangled for older fingers to unravel. In 1937, when William O. Douglas, then SEChairman, was denouncing the New York Stock Exchange as a "private club" with little concern for the public interest, the exchange's governors turned to Martin, an exchange member, to help set things right. Martin helped draft the plan which completely reorganized the exchange in 1938, and became, at 31, the exchange's first paid president. In 1941 he entered the Army as a private, rose to colonel. After the war, President Truman...
...ACTH's power to turn certain disease processes off & on at will, Dr. Mote believes that its discovery compares in importance with the identification of bacteria as causes of disease. After a century, the full bacteria story is not yet known. It may take as long to unravel the mysteries of such hormones as ACTH...