Word: foreleg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ward was even more exciting; gave more specific support to this classic but never entirely proved theory. They removed half of their cat's hind brain thus preventing radiation of stimuli, and touched the sound half with an electric current. This time the cat slowly raised only the foreleg on the stimulated side, slowly put it down. Patient Drs. Clark & Ward are seeking other motor centres...
Earl shouted at him. Suddenly Sunshine turned on his keeper, hugged him tight with one foreleg, clawed him viciously with the other. Keeper Earl shouted for help, wrestled for his life. Guards came running, fired shot after shot at the mad bear. Three shots struck Keeper Earl, the 30th slew the bear. Physicians examining the keeper's body found his lungs ripped open, his intestines bared by great claw strokes. They decided that the bear, not the bullets, had slain Keeper Earl...
...horses in the U. S. who was thought to have a chance of beating Australia's late great Phar Lap. This spring there were reports that Twenty Grand was ailing. Last week this was verified. A middle tendon in his foreleg which he ruptured in training last autumn had grown weaker instead of stronger. Mrs Whitney's stable manager said Twenty Grand would be retired to the Whitney farm at Lexington, Ky. for "a short term at stud duty, then a long rest...
...previous period Captain Roark's little brown mare Joy Bells suddenly went lame. Helped off the field, Joy Bells was found to have a broken pastern in her right foreleg. Spectators were happy to hear that although she will never play polo again, she will not be destroyed. "For sentimental reasons" she will be carefully nursed until the leg mends, then she will pass the rest of her useful life foaling...