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Word: kneeing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seldom seen at Hollywood night clubs, both like reading (she prefers biographies, thought David Cecil': The Young Melbourne "wonderfully good"). Olivier sings a few songs that Vivien Leigh knows how to pick out c i the piano. In their repertory: The Melody in F, Banjo on My Knee, My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: G With the W | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...period of three minutes. Such stimulation, if cautiously and skillfully applied, has worked wonders with "old" paralysis, wrote Dr. Richard Kovacs of Manhattan. After four weeks of electric stimulation, he said, one patient with an "atrophied leg ... of 18 years' standing" was able to bend her knee again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Polio Pamphlet | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...bench to make room for a building process for the future, but some of them are apt to break into the lineup in crucial league games if the Sophomores do not come up to expectations. Junior center Homer Peabody is the most valuable letterman, but a pulled knee ligament threatens to keep him out of action for much of the season...

Author: By Donald Peddle, | Title: What's His Number? | 12/9/1939 | See Source »

...Skirts range from a conservative two inches below the knee to a little above it, which Vassarites "seem to love." Duke and Purdue reported no above-the-knee skirts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Calves, Knees, Waists | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...Socks reaching just below the knee, launched as a successor to ubiquitous ankle socks, have not caught on, although cold weather may bring them out. A Chicago girl wearing them was stared at. Wellesley finds them "very unflattering to legs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Calves, Knees, Waists | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

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