Word: appendix
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wills. It was too bad, people said, but you could not expect a champion to be always at her best. When, last week, Miss Ryan cut down Miss Wills decisively in the same tournament, 6-4, 6-1, newspapers reminded the public that Miss Wills had just lost her appendix...
...follies are over, even if he does eat flapjacks at Hollywood now and then. Tennis is his game, his life. He'll not be 'through' for many a moon." Wills-Browne. The fresh-healed threat in Helen Wills' right side-her appendix scar-softened last week and put her adulators at their ease. Her match in the final of the East Hampton invitation tournament against nut-brown Mary Browne was the first test of her condition since her operation in England, and she passed it with never a quiver. Her old bulletlike serve sang true...
Other knights, other fates, the perplexity of which is somewhat relieved by an appendix, a much-needed calendar of events during the years 1239-1300 in legendary France...
...Appendix. A series of covering notes between the contracting parties was attached as an appendix having the same validity as the treaty itself. Therein Germany affirms that: 1) She will not take part in any punitive action by the League of Nations against Russia, unless she (Germany) deems Russia indisputably guilty of aggression. 2) The German Government is convinced that Germany's membership in the League offers no obstacle to a friendly development of Russo-German relations...
...seen in certain very thin persons. It resembles greatly the finger movements in milking a cow's teats. In intestinal obstruction such cathartic-induced peristalsis pounds the blockade, causing terrific distress and often death. Appendicitis is another situation where cathartics may not be used without discretion. Here the appendix has become infected and the human corporation tries to occlude the spread of germs by forming adhesions and putting the abdomen at rest. Cathartics disturb this equilibrium...