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Word: armes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boys" he would say, "I don't need to pay a kid to play football at Harvard. Just let me take him along the Charles when the sun is setting on the houses and Tom Bolles is bringing his crew home. After that any kid would give his right arm to spend four years here...

Author: By Burton S. Glinn, | Title: Crew Spells Nostalgia to Old Crads | 3/30/1949 | See Source »

...points of interest include Robert Young, who hasn't changed a bit since the picture was made, and the characterization, strange in this day of science-on-the-comic-pages, of engineers as earnest young men who scurry around in knee-breeches lugging a surveyor's transit under each arm. Young appears thoroughly crocked for the majority of the movie, which is no loss. It makes you appreciate Hepburn just so much more...

Author: By Paul W. Mandel, | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/29/1949 | See Source »

...also had a few bruises to show for it. Los Angeles newspapers played up Mrs. Phillips' story. At week's end, four men, armed with pistols and iron pipes, walked into Pearson's shop. They wrecked the joint, beat Pearson vigorously about the head and body, sent him to the hospital with concussion and a lamed arm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Pay the Man | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

...bronchitis, malarial fever, and a lung abscess caused by the bullet. But he had almost everything else: bronchiectasis (inflamed and dilated bronchial tubes), stomach, kidney and eye trouble; in later years, "cholera morbus" (widespread intestinal inflammation) and dropsy. From another duel he had an open wound in his left arm; doctors wanted to amputate, but he refused and trusted in a poultice of slippery elm (still used in lozenges for sore throat). He kept the arm, but later developed osteomyelitis (stubborn infection of the bone). The infections from the bullets, Diagnostician Gardner thinks, brought on amyloidosis (a waxy degeneration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Ailing Hickory | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

...Overhand Joe." Last week Rickey introduced still another gadget-"Big Inch," a gravity-feed pipeline into which outfielders tossed the ball after shagging long flies. "Big Inch" conducted the balls to a box near the batting cage, prevented a hail of return throws and saved the outfielder's arm for the throwing practice that would come later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: They'll All Be Doing This | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

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