Word: knob
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Spiked Hips. The unshapely knob at the top of the thigh bone (femur) is the hip bone. When a person, especially if elderly, falls the knob is apt to break off from the thigh bone. Healing has been a tremendously difficult and painful process. Last year Dr. David Robert Telson of Brooklyn suggested piercing the knob and shaft and lacing them together with stout piano wire. This procedure works to a degree. But the stoutest piano wire gives a little. Last week Dr. Frederick J. Gaenslen of Milwaukee said that he got dependable cures of broken hips by nailing...
...Critic again! It is traditional that a fourth publication appear occasionally at Harvard to rear its stalwart knob of a head and then to subside into nothingness and the realm of forgotten dailies. Such was the destined fate of the Critic, it was said, when that publication was relegated last spring to what the defunct Liberal was pleased to call its whited sepulchre.--under the anathema "they did not publish," and it is true that the Critic has again made up its mind to walk the face of the early...
...entered the living room of Mrs. A. H. Commins, picked up two pocketbooks from a table. ''I'll just take care of these," said the thief. "All right." said Mrs. Commins, continuing to read her book. The thief walked to the front door, fumbled with the knob. "You'll have to turn the latch," said Mrs. Commins. "Thank you," said the thief. When she finished reading Mrs. Commins discovered that she had not been talking to her Negro butler, had been robbed of $80 in cash...
...know what stock prices are or exactly what the dollar is doing. If the listener-in gets tired of any of these things-for example, if he gets fed up with one of my public utterances -your industry has provided a simple remedy in the shape of a little knob. . . I only wish that all other matters could be dispensed with so easily." Elected an honorary life member of the New York Evening Sun's Sun Club was Elder Statesman Elihu Root, 88. onetime (1905-09) Secretary of State, Nobel Peace Prize Winner (1912). onetime Sun dramatic critic, onetime...
...hostile editor as "one litre of castor oil" (slightly over one quart) administered by Storm Troopers who then waited and guffawed at the result. Such tactics, copied from Mussolini, were often better than beating, but Dr. Goebbels has no need of them today. He held in his thin, knob-knuckled hands last week a new National Press Law making it a crime to practice journalism in Germany except as a licensed member of a nationwide closed shop. Der Reichsverband der Dentschen Presse, headed by Dr. Goebbels...