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...Apply a tourniquet above the knee or elbow whenever the bite is located below those levels. Release it every ten minutes to prevent gangrene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Snakes | 1/28/1929 | See Source »

...dancing flaunts no stunting stars like the three tall-hatted hoofers in "Hold Everything"; its appeal is therefore the more inexplicable. Marjorie Peterson, as Nanette, leads two choruses in dances of a grace that never needs the musical comedy elbow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 11/1/1928 | See Source »

Before General Obregon proceeded to "take his turn" he broke the power of Bandit Pancho Villa with the decisive victories of Celaya and Guano Juato, which however cost him his right arm, amputated above the elbow after wounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Must keep calm! | 7/30/1928 | See Source »

...either Columbia or California had to win. But when, at Poughkeepsie, a gun went off and seven crews splashed in a racing start, it was Cornell that jumped out in front. Down the river, wide and grey, covered with launches, canoes, yachts, ferryboats, the boats moved from Krums Elbow toward the bridge that rose, a web of iron, in the mist. At the mile and a half, Cornell had more than a length on the others. At two and a half miles, Cornell was rowed out and Columbia was leading California by a few feet. In the last third...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Crews | 7/2/1928 | See Source »

Steaming in through San Francisco's Golden Gate, last week, came the President McKinley, bearing a petite, blue-eyed German Fraulein of twenty-two. Resting an elbow on the ship's rail and cuddling her small chin in a pensive palm, she gazed at Las Papas, those twin, majestic mountains called "The Breasts." Then, having admired the view, Fraulein Clarenore Stinnes coolly turned to confront excited reporters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Fraulein and Swede | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

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