Word: elbows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tribune survived its first days, as a militant "workingman's weekly," by changing its garish typography for quieter dress, increasing its literary and art criticism, tripling its price and courting the "out-at-elbow middle class." The phrase came from its prize, unpredictable Critic-Columnist George Orwell...
...spite of the progress that is marked by the completion of this project, no fanfare opening, similar to that of the Computation Laboratory last month, is planned by the department; but Newman conceded that the staff might do a little elbow bending when the last electrician packs his tools and the white mice are ensconced in their modernistic quarters...
...Houston calls itself the Chicago of the South, and indeed there are resemblances. It has the unlimited elbow room of the flat country. It also has a canal which looks and smells much like ours. It has that unbounded energy and confidence in the future that used to characterize Chicago. It is remarkable for the newness of its ... buildings. Traffic is well regulated, but the drivers make more noise than I have ever heard...
With facts & figures, Professor Moore demonstrated that the technique most good players use is scientifically superior: the pendulum stroke, with forearm swinging vertically from the elbow. Unfortunately for Professor Moore's thesis, Willie uses a sidearm stroke. It was a habit he picked up lying belly-to-billiard-table as a boy of five. Said 59-year-old Willie Hoppe: "It's too complicated for me. I guess this analysis came too late to help my game...
...limb because of its experience in working with light materials. Designed by a crew of engineers, the Northrop arm is a plastic and aluminum affair weighing half a pound to a pound less than previous arms. Other advantages: a new wrist mechanism (for arms amputated below the elbow) which makes it possible to rotate the wrist in either direction; a steel cable, replacing smelly leather thongs; an improved elbow lock. The Northrop leg, similarly, is lighter, has a suction socket and locking knee...