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Word: kneeing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Krieg wants to try the same technique with deafness and paralysis. In some kinds of paralysis, he theorizes, the patient could be equipped with an apparatus (as a substitute transmission station for damaged nerves), worn at the hip or knee and turned on or off by the patient. A manually operated switchboard might select such a desired motion as walking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: New Horizons | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

Another veteran, Billy Boucher, was originally scheduled to make the trip but came up with an ailing knee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rugger Team Off to McGill For First Tilt | 11/10/1949 | See Source »

Princeton rah-rah is the kind of spirit that sends a student to cocktail parties wearing short plants and knee-length orange-and-black socks, or to a football game in a tatooed jacket depicting a man potted in an ash-can, with the motto, "Sic semper parti pooperus...

Author: By John J. Sack, | Title: Princeton: Hard Work and Rah-Rah | 11/5/1949 | See Source »

...Purple's defensive standouts are Co-Captain Tom Kelleher, a two-way end and a regular for three years, and Bill DeChard, who backs up the line. Kelleher is still nursing a knee injury; DeChard saw little action last year because of a shoulder bruise, but shone as a freshman two years...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: Crimson, Crusader Elevens Try for First Victory Today | 10/29/1949 | See Source »

...after unsuccessful tests with muscle tissue, cellophane, and finally metal bone-end coverings, the doctors tried nylon. In the 20 knee operations they have performed with nylon wrap-ups (called arthroplasty), every patient was able to walk again within three weeks. Only one failed to regain painless knee movement (because of a faulty blood supply, rather than any fault in the operation). Of the 19 others, ten have fully regained "normal range of motion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Nylon on the Knee | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

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