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Word: lateralled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last June, when 36-year-old Lou Gehrig, the Yankees' "Iron Horse," said good-by to baseball, no insurance company would have considered him a good risk. For Gehrig was benched by a rare, incurable, creeping paralysis known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Last week stout-hearted Lou, now a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Gehrig's Disease | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

It seemed likely that pituitary excess set in after the Angel's long bones had stopped growing, otherwise he might have been a giant. His overdevelopment is lateral. Though just under 5 ft. 10 in. tall, he weighs 276 Ibs. One investigator declared: "The collar bones and rib cage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Angel Measured | 3/4/1940 | See Source »

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