Word: kneeing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second stage follows two to six weeks later. Typical symptoms: swollen joints, fever, rheumatic nodules at the elbow, knee and other joints. "When it is typical, the disease is easy to diagnose," says Dr. Schwentker, "but the big majority of cases are not typical. The patient may suffer from vague, fleeting pains in the joints and have a low fever." Mistakes in diagnosis are again common until the heart's valves and blood vessels become inflamed...
Across the Kansas plain great puffs of whitish dust erupted into the shimmering heat. Inside these clouds the ponderous combines roared and clanked, their reel slats flashing as they flailed through the knee-high wheat. In the No. 1 wheat state of the world's greatest wheat-producing nation, it was harvest time...
Visitors to the Philadelphia Museum of Art this week waded knee-deep in the past, and came out tired but happy...
...last week puttering George Stimpson, who never learned how to make his wealth of contacts pay off in fame, was knee-deep in good luck. His factmongering had hit the jackpot: the Book-of-the-Month Club had picked up his Book about a Thousand Things (Harper; $3.50), a random selection snatched from his disheveled files, and he stood to make $50,000 from it. (Last year his Book about the Bible, a similar sampling from his "B" files, surprised its publisher-and its author-by selling 30,000 copies.) Mildly bewildered, Bachelor George Stimpson muttered...
...Sunset Towers in Los Angeles. Then, backed by Chicago's sewer contractor Steve Healy, he bought Chicago's 3,000-room Stevens from the Army. (The Stevens, too, was subsequently sold.) But Kirkeby's biggest splash was the Hampshire House, ankle-deep in carpeting, knee-deep in income...