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...test tube bearing the youngster's name and control numbers. Time and again, in answer to an anxious "Wotta they gonna do?" she explained the procedure softly and reassuringly. Working in twos, nurses slipped a needle into a vein in the hollow of the child's elbow (what doctors call the antecubital fossa) and snapped a vacuum seal. Immediately the tube began to fill with blood. Most of the youngsters watched with impersonal detachment, and girls were no more upset by the sight of blood than boys. (These blood samples will be tested to see how many children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Closing in on Polio | 3/29/1954 | See Source »

...never worked. Perennially there is some minor riot; this year there was a serious injury. Instead of Good Fellowship, sharp fist fights break out as clique rubs elbow with clique. And records of past springs shown no evidence that the Smoker stops the class from other, less organized, rioting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: It Happens Every Spring | 3/12/1954 | See Source »

Bliss, who earlier in the season injured his elbow, was apparently favoring it when he was hurled into the boards at New Haven last Saturday. He managed to escape reinjuring the elbow, but severely bruised his shoulder in the process. The arm was still in a sling yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Weakened Varsity Sextet Battles Princeton Tonight | 3/3/1954 | See Source »

...never a question of Harvard being the superior team. Quinn scored again at 14:57 of the second. Bray evened that counter in the third after sophomores Pete Summers had replaced injured Ned Bliss on the third line. Bliss was removed halfway through the contest with a reported broken elbow...

Author: By John J. Iselin, | Title: Boston College Tops Crimson Sextet, 4-1 | 2/16/1954 | See Source »

...micros smashed up on a turn, three others spun out, another broke a steering-column pin, climbed a bank and hit a fence; but as usual no one was hurt-in fact, in four years of micro racing, the most serious injury any driver has suffered is a broken elbow. Swarthout, who races "strictly for the laughs," since there is no prize money for micro addicts, buzzed home first in the main race. Afterward, the hat was passed, and the drivers collected $276.72 for the March of Dimes. Grinned Top-Winner Swarthout: "It was a real nice afternoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Micro Midgets | 2/15/1954 | See Source »

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