Word: bone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...minor operation, the staples are driven into the long bones of the leg above and below the knee, near the joint, where the bone grows longer. There is no need to try to figure out the exact time when the child's growth will end, Dr. Blount explained. The staples do not keep the leg from growing, but they slow the process. When the short leg has caught up, and the child walks without a limp, the staples are taken out, and both legs can grow at once. The staples may be kept in place as long...
...real struggle until he was 45, and at the peak of success. Then he undertook a gallant and successful fight to walk again, after a Long Island horseback-riding accident left him with compound fractures of both legs. Winning this fight took 31 operations (mostly to clear up a bone infection of his right leg), years of constant pain, and a tough-minded courage that surprised his friends and impressed his physician...
Next term the schedule will present really severe competition. But the key players will be back form Stillman. Captain Dusty Burke, whose broken collar bone is mending, will put on his uniform in a few weeks, while wingman Lynch has already been cleared by the Hygiene Department...
Coach Priddy also has good defense men. when Burke cracked his collar bone defense man Bill Bliss joined Jack Donelan, a former New England All Scholastic from Maiden Catholic High, to patrol the Harvard defense zone. Under the temporary change Wykoff dropped back to form a second due with Greg Koillglan, another St. Mark...
...Composer Cage, who looks like a Huck Finn grown to 36, is trying to compose music that is really "atonal." Says he: "Atonal music was excellent in theory, but there were no atonal instruments to play it." He wanted "sounds" instead of "tones"; he found them in junk yards, bone yards and hardware stores-brake drums, pipe lengths, asses' jaws-and in his prepared pianos...