Word: gait
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...University of Rochester last week announced that its gait analyst. Orthopedist Russell Plato Schwartz, will build a race track on a farm which he has just bought overlooking the Genesee River. There Dr. Schwartz will walk, trot, single-step, lope and gallop horses on whose backs will be strapped an electric recording device which Dr. Schwartz calls an electrobasograph. This will show by means of wires attached to the hoofs, details of locomotion which the fastest cinema cameras have failed to catch. Eventually Dr. Schwartz "hopes to determine precisely what makes a good race horse...
...dress of extraordinarily bright yellow contrasts strikingly with the grimness of the brownstone steps before which she passes and with the dusky hue of her skin. The modeling of the statesque figure is most carefully and wonderfully done, thereby achieving a most vivid sense of motion and a swinging gait...
...research to promote human betterment." Besides growth, old age, immunity and susceptibility, the institute would study norms and variations in physical, mental and nervous structure. New research channels would be fully developed.,: In orthopedics, for example, X-rays and slow-motion pictures would be used to investigate posture and gait from birth to death. The staff would include some physical anthropologists, whose special training and points of view are essential. The U. S. has less than a dozen physical anthropologists paid to devote all their time to their specialty, and more are needed. Meanwhile, overcrowding in the medical profession might...
Claudia had been a bossy girl, a domineering young woman. She had never forgiven her sister Anna for breaking away, marrying a rich husband and going her own gait. She had bought a country place she could not really afford, because it was her childhood home, and she secretly wanted her children to be molded into her shape. Claudia prided herself on being a modern mother, and most of all on her absolute honesty. She loved to analyze herself before others, invite and apparently accept criticism of her infallible conduct-and then go on exactly as before...
...like most M.F.H.'s, he still goes to his old-fashioned Manhattan office to "work for his living" as a coal dealer. An all-round horseman, he har had many a nasty spill, broke his hip playing polo 14 years ago and has walked with a halting gait ever since. Says he: "I'm better on four legs than two." Of Scottish ancestry, he is prouder of being a Yankee who was born in Israel Putnam's house in Greenwich, Conn. A Ph.D., LL.D., he is prouder of his legs, which he considers a finer pair...