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Word: kneeing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germany's Minister to Austria when in 1933 Adolf Hitler climbed into power. Dr. Rieth stayed on in Vienna, was soon knee-deep in Nazi intrigue. After the assassination by Nazi gunmen of Austria's brave little Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss, Minister Rieth was recalled to Berlin, replaced by his good friend Franz von Papen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: Unwelcome Guest | 6/9/1941 | See Source »

...attached electrodes to the man's brain and heart, tried vainly to stimulate them. He injected an adrenalin compound into the heart, meanwhile compressing the chest. No results. Only sign of life: when he struck the man's forearm with a rubber hammer, it twitched like a knee jerk. After two hours, Dr. Brickley pronounced him "dead beyond recall." Electrocution, said Dr. Brickley last week, kills in three different ways: 1) it heats the body abnormally, coagulating the blood; 2) it contracts the muscles, choking off the body's supply of oxygen; 3) it produces rupture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: What Is Death? | 6/2/1941 | See Source »

Delivery. In Muskegon, Mich., Charlie Chin smelled an odor unlike a wet washing, scampered to the basement of his laundry, found himself knee deep in 1,600 gallons of fuel oil that a confused truckman had piped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 26, 1941 | 5/26/1941 | See Source »

...three students, Gardiner was most seriously hurt, receiving a bad concussion. McVeigh suffered knee injuries and facial lacerations while Emmett received severe cuts about the head...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 3 Upperclassmen Badly Hurt In Memorial Drive Crack-up | 5/26/1941 | See Source »

...best jumper the North Woods has seen in many a decade, will force Dave Ives and Pirnie, if he jumps, to their utmost. Bob Partlow outleaped Blount last year in the broad on one of the Dartmouth star's off days, but at present is recuperating an injured knee and not certain to participate...

Author: By J. ROBERT Moskin, | Title: Dartmouth Runners Hope To End Soldiers Field Jinx | 5/7/1941 | See Source »

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