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...periods to make them talk. The second torture consisted in suspending them, their hands tied to their feet behind their backs, this time with their heads up, then placing beneath them a trestle [sawhorse], and swinging them with fist blows so that their sexual organs banged against the sharp crossbar of the trestle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Against the Torture | 4/1/1957 | See Source »

...work too hard during the week and you leave your best on the practice field," says Dodd. While backs brush up on their assignments, linemen horn in and take a crack at carrying the ball "to give them some variety." Groups wander off to play volleyball, using a goalpost crossbar as the net. Touch football is a favorite time-killer. Every few minutes the routine is changed so the boys will not get bored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Happy Coach | 11/12/1956 | See Source »

Bucknell quarterback Jim Stewart kicked all the Bison's point-after attempts. After the second touchdown, he nearly missed the ball entirely, and on his fourth attempt, the ball bounced off the left goalpost well beneath the crossbar...

Author: By John E. Grady, | Title: Bucknell Rallies in Third-Quarter Drive To Tie Favored Crimson Eleven, 26 to 26 | 10/31/1955 | See Source »

...addition they possessed the opportunity to send the ball over the crossbar between both of the tall goalposts. One man held the ball, its pointed end up. Bobby Locke ran up: BOOM!--jubilation in the stadium--now it was seven points for the Giants. The first fifteen minutes were over...

Author: By Herbert Beyer, | Title: Football, Communist Style | 10/1/1955 | See Source »

...energetic director, Cancer Surgeon Randolph Lee Clark Jr., Anderson incorporates virtually all the features that any hospital architect, administrator or doctor has ever suggested to promote efficiency and comfort. The difference begins at the doors. Patients enter the building (shaped like a letter T, but with an added crossbar like an F) from the west, doctors and nurses from the south, administrative personnel from the southeast, research workers from the east, students from the north. In the wings housing the hospital's 310 beds, vertical and horizontal flow have been skillfully coordinated not only for the most efficient treatment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pink Palace of Healing | 12/13/1954 | See Source »

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