Word: hand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trying to woo back to the State some of the industries which Long laws drove away and by the Court decision he could help to reassure them without offending the gullible electorate which still worships the murdered Huey. Whatever the explanation, it was undeniable that the dead hand of Long was losing its grip on the Pelican State...
Warden Lawes has been the fatherly director of Sing Sing Prison for 17 years. In all these years the Warden has kept not only a steady hand and an open heart, but a warm and sympathetic literary point of view which produced in 1932 a non-fiction best-seller called Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing. Not until he collaborated on Chalked Out, however, had Warden Lawes undertaken to rattle the cup dramatically on his 2,500 punks, wolves and right guys...
...ultimate eighth of an inch of John Doe's hammer throw or broad jump is to be entered in the records at all," says Dr. Kirkpatrick. "it would seem sensible to try to get it down correctly. ... In all cases where adequate data are at hand the method of redress is by simple arithmetic, in conjunction with two or three venerable formulas. . . . The labors of Newton and Copernicus have been complete for some time now, but news sometimes seems to travel slowly in precisely those quarters where it is significant...
When a Mensendiecker raises his right hand in a stiff-armed salute, he puts his weight on his right foot and thrusts his left leg backward. The left leg thus counterbalances the upraised right arm. Because Nazis and Fascists stand with their feet together when they salute, they strain themselves (according to Mensendieck theory) and are bound to have unesthetic legs and rumps...
...stoop. Start from the foot-forward, scissors position. Bend one knee until it almost touches the floor. Bend the other knee less. To pick up anything use the hand on the side of the lower knee, simultaneously swinging the other arm to the rear for counterbalance...