Word: bura
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...General Hawley announced that the Veterans' Administration-for the first time in history-plans to spend $1,000,000 a year for prosthetic research. ¶ Walter Bura, a 31-year-old civilian amputee with a bent for engineering, was appointed chief of the VA Division of Prosthetic Devices with the job of speeding new inventions to the wearable stage. Bura, who walks so well himself that no one realizes his leg is off above the knee, is credited with having "revolutionized" the Army's methods of teaching amputees to walk...
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