Word: bone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...against it, but nose-counters figured that well over the requisite two-thirds of the Senate would complaisantly go along with the President. In fact, approval of the World Court seemed so imminent as to impair the Administration's strategy of using this old subject as an oratorical bone for the Senate to chew on until more important matters could be prepared for its consideration...
...seagoing people, U. S. citizens are the blood & bone of the ocean travel business. Last week the Department of State released Passport Bureau statistics showing what sort of person the average U. S. tourist is. He turned out to be a male resident of New York City, taking his wife and children to Western Europe to visit relatives. By occupation he might be almost anything from a clerk to a schoolteacher. Of the 139,590 men, women & children who went abroad in 1934 the largest single occupational group were housewives (16,314), the next biggest group people with no occupation...
Spiked Hips. The unshapely knob at the top of the thigh bone (femur) is the hip bone. When a person, especially if elderly, falls the knob is apt to break off from the thigh bone. Healing has been a tremendously difficult and painful process. Last year Dr. David Robert Telson of Brooklyn suggested piercing the knob and shaft and lacing them together with stout piano wire. This procedure works to a degree. But the stoutest piano wire gives a little. Last week Dr. Frederick J. Gaenslen of Milwaukee said that he got dependable cures of broken hips by nailing...
Shelved Hips. Dislocation of the hip is apt to recur when the muscles which hold the hip bone into the shallow hip socket have been weakened. Injury or infantile paralysis will do this. Dr. Marion Beckett Howorth of Manhattan invented a way of overcoming the slipping of the joint. He cuts through the flesh at the hip, lays bare the joint. Then he carefully breaks the part of the pelvic bone which forms the upper edge of the hip socket. The loosened piece of bone he bends down and wedges securely with bone grafts. After healing, the downturned chunk...
...careful not to reach too roughly, for probably one-third of dislocated shoulders repeat the accident. Dr. Toufick Nicola of Manhattan prevents the repetition by cutting part of one of the tendons of the shoulder joint (biceps tendon) and drilling a hole through the upper portion of the arm bone (humerus). Dr. Nicola then laces the cut biceps tendon through the hole and fixes it at the other end of the joint. The tendon thus effectively straps the loose joint together...