Word: kneeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Picture an irate mother flinging her offspring over her knee and raising her palm to give him a good one-so urged famed Psychoanalyst Carl Gustav Jung at a Manhattan luncheon of the Students International Union. "Suddenly," he said, "her hand falls slowly to her side. She has thought of the psychology book, and is wondering what its advice would be in this situation. The arm does not raise again, and the poor child is thus deprived of a valuable educational experience...
...lineup, injury jinx makes the principal problem. Of three veteran and stellar fullbacks, Coach Carr never knows for certain if any of them will be able to play until about the day of a game. Captain Dick Powell is permanently benched with a trick knee; Joe Bradley has a thigh ailment which usually allows him to play at least part of a game, recurs, and keeps him out for two or three days. Ted Robie injured his spleen in a headon tackle in the Dartmouth game and finds his return to action pretty much...
...professional ethics from shaving their customers with anything more than polite firmness would turn green with envy at the forthright way Mexican goat-shearers shear goats. A goat is taken, brusquely by the scruff of its neck and thrown to the ground. The shearer holds it down with his knee while he clips its belly. Patient old goats who have outgrown their tick-lishness lie still; young goats squirm. The goat's four feet have meanwhile been bunched together and tied. The shearer clips as much of its back as he can reach, flops it over like a griddle...
Twice as many leg amputations are below the knee as above. Arm amputations are about 50-50 above and below the elbow. About 80% of artificial limbs are legs, made from willow, aluminum or fibre and costing about $200 when attached below the knee, $225 when attached above. They weigh about five pounds, last five or six years. Artificial arms cost from $125 for simple types to $250 for those including movable wrists and hands. Wearers always remove their artificial limbs upon retiring, usually stow them under the bed. They can be donned in two or three minutes. Many wearers...
...fast-forming forward line turned the tide in the Business School game, as the Lord Jeff's overcame Coach Jack Carr's physically weakened fullbacks. A knee injury forced Joe Bradley out in the first period...