Word: elbow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...secrets of State are treaty negotiations. Last week Mrs. J. Borden ("Daisy") Harriman, who has been a woman for 66 years, had been a diplomat only five minutes when, immediately after being sworn in as Minister to Norway (TIME, April 12 et seq.), she received the press. At her elbow stood the State Department's grey, genial pressagent, Chief Michael J. McDermott of the Division of Current Information...
...further the Harvard trouble Ed Ingalls, leading pitcher, is still bothered by a sore elbow, but he has been chosen to hurl just the same. Last Saturday at Cornell, Ingalls threw only three curves due to this trouble, but got by all right, and Coach Fred Mitchell figures that he will do so again today...
...body's centre of gravity lies in the sacrum (base of the spine). When the human animal stands properly erect, an imaginary line should cut the nose, chin, breastbone and crotch. Another imaginary line should drop from the mastoid, in front of the shoulder joint, through the elbow and little finger (palm turned to the rear), side of knee and ankle. This is achieved by standing with feet together, shoulders held back, abdomen tucked in, buttocks clenched...
...cubit is the distance from a man's elbow to the tip of his ringers and a span is the span of the hand or approximately one half of a cubit. These units of measurement are of course variable as the size of the person doing the measuring...
...Tenth Ward. An apt pupil, he was ready to take over the ward when his father died in 1929. That year Young Jim's training for the succession began in earnest. Beginning to tire of 500 conferences per day, Big Boss Tom kept his nephew at his elbow, left him holding the reins when he went off vacationing. Running against the son of another famed Democrat, Bennett Champ Clark, Young Jim was elected president of Missouri's Young Democrats.* The heir-apparent got his first big test last June when, at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Uncle...