Word: foreleg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year-olds. Black Hills slipped on the muddy track, went down with Jockey Eddie Arcaro and rolled on him. Lake Erie, following close behind, stumbled over the tangle. Lake Erie's Jockey Wally Blum was unhurt, but Arcaro was hospitalized with a concussion and sprains. Black Hills, a foreleg fractured, was destroyed. The pile-up had no effect on the favorite, Brookmeade Stable's Sword Dancer. Runner-up in both the Preakness and Kentucky Derby, Sword Dancer won by nearly a length...
...lame favorite finished under his own courage, and his jockey dismounted far down the track rather than make him carry weight a step more than necessary. Later, after an ambulance had helped him to his barn, X rays showed that Tim Tam had chipped a bone in his right foreleg. The Triple Crown was gone; his brief, bright career was probably over...
What lies in the still more distant future for Merck & Co.? One of the most forward-looking experiments now under way at Merck is designed to measure fatigue. A laboratory rat is placed in a tank of water, and with each stroke of a foreleg, he sets off a series of complex electronic devices to record his acceleration. From this, Merck scientists hope to learn more about muscular fatigue in general, and how it can be influenced by hormones. Beyond that, neither George Merck nor his 425 scientific and medical researchers can tell, and probably they would not if they...
Owner Goetz kept hoping the vets could save Your Host, even though the injury was almost impossible to treat. But the chestnut colt, hobbling painfully about his stall on three legs (his right foreleg swollen and foreshortened), grew steadily worse. Last week, after the veterinarians agreed that there was nothing more to be done, Your Host was condemned...
...adult frog from growing new legs, Dr. Singer had cut the big sciatic nerves out of the hind legs of 21 amputee frogs, folded them back under the skin, and connected them to the stumps of the frogs' amputated front legs. In 20 of the frogs a new foreleg began to grow within three weeks. They were not very good legs. Nevertheless, they were legs...