Word: bone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Traditional treatment for the stiffened joints of arthritis has been to scrape the ends of the bones, then wrap the exposed bone surfaces in a smooth material to keep the scar tissue from sticking the joint together again. But in the knee joint, where wear & tear is heavy, such an operation gave only short relief: as the material wore out, the joints stiffened up again...
...after unsuccessful tests with muscle tissue, cellophane, and finally metal bone-end coverings, the doctors tried nylon. In the 20 knee operations they have performed with nylon wrap-ups (called arthroplasty), every patient was able to walk again within three weeks. Only one failed to regain painless knee movement (because of a faulty blood supply, rather than any fault in the operation). Of the 19 others, ten have fully regained "normal range of motion...
Fortunately, nobody for a change was permanently put out of action. Early in the first quarter, Davis tackled Dartmouth fullback Carey with what amounted to his face, and Carey's cleats broke his nose. But a specialist was called out of the stands, and set the bone in the record time of four minutes, just about as fast as it took to hook a nose guard onto his helmet. He played the rest of the game...
...Bone crushing line plunges accounted for Winthrop's touchdown drive in the third quarter against Dudley. The Puritans needed all four downs to put Frank Hernberg over from...
...tiny (550 seats) auditorium of the Ridgefield, Conn, high school, he led his orchestra, proud, gay and beaming, through a typical "pop" concert program that his concert and radio audiences seldom hear him play. While kids and grown-ups sat enthralled, he gave them Saint-Saëns' bone-rattling Danse Macabre; he made Mendelssohn's "Italian" Symphony glow with Italian sunlight, Debussy's Afternoon of a Faun shimmer sensually. By the time he had sailed through one of his own light favorites, Waldteufel's Skaters' Waltz, the audience could not let him go without...