Word: leg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When William S. Hart, aging patriarch of the Westerns, slid wearily from the saddle more than a decade ago, Buck Jones (real name: Charles Gebhart) already had a leg up on his larruping, law-&-order cinema career. Still riding like a Centaur after 20 years in pictures, 6-foot, 175-pound, 48-year-old Buck Jones roams a wider cinema range than did Bill Hart, sometimes puffs breakfast cereals over the radio. Last year Buck Jones earned as much as $7,500 a week, took in about $300,000 all told. Whenever a Buck Jones picture goes...
...Einstein believes that Physics is in a bad dilemma at present, with one leg in the Field Theory and the other buried in Quanta. Investigation into particles of matter leads from descriptions of events in time and space to probability waves, and the problem of placing such waves in the field concept of space is a major one. Suppose that a solution is found; in what way are we better off? Dr. Einstein is not sure. "In our endeavor to understand reality we are somewhat like a man trying to understand the mechanism of a closed watch. He sees...
...Half-a-dozen years ago, however, Dr. Rolla Eugene Dyer of the U. S. Public Health Service, coming out of a hospital, weak, emaciated and quavering, revealed that he had contracted typhus from fleas, a cage of which he had worn for the sake of experiment taped to his leg. The fleas came from rats. And that explained the mode of transmission of a mild type of typhus fever (Brill's disease) which exists endemically on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts from New York to Louisiana (TIME...
...more taxi drivers than students, and more yard cops than professors. In President Wigglesworth's time the college played a man $2000 a year to mow grass in front of Lehman Hall, which was then a stable. The man's name was Harvard, and he had a square wooden leg, and consequently when he came to the end of the lawn, he could only turn a sharp corner. These sharp corners formed a square, which came to be called "Harvard's Square...
Into the offices of Maryland's State Unemployment Service in Baltimore walked Nettie Mudd Monroe, widowed daughter of Dr. Samuel Alexander Mudd, the mild country doctor who set the leg of Assassin John Wilkes Booth the morning after Booth shot Abraham Lincoln, and who for his apparently innocent treatment languished four years in Fort Jefferson at Dry Tortugas off Florida. Purpose of Daughter Nettie's visit: to apply for an accountant's job, so that she might earn $200, enough to finish research for an authentic Civil War romance. Asked about her father, she answered: "When...