Word: leg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quickly. Followed a series of commissions for animal sculpture of all sorts from fire screens to weather vanes. His wrought-iron silhouets of horses and riders became world-known. At the height of his popularity eight years ago Hunt Diederich fell off a scaffolding in Germany, smashed his right leg. It became infected. Doctors wished to amputate but Sculptor Diederich stubbornly refused to let them, traveled in agony from one hospital to another. Few months ago the first real progress came with the application of sterile maggots to the open wound...
Like two other famed U. S. milers, Bonthron and Cunningham, San Romani's running career was stimulated by a serious leg injury in his childhood. When he was six, a truck crushed his leg. Doctors considered amputation. A onetime coal miner, San Romani first came to notice last year, when he won the National Collegiate mile in California. Last summer he beat Bonthron and Venzke in the A. A. U. 1500-metre championship. Now 24, a senior at Kansas State Teachers...
North Dakota's Senator Gerald P. Nye suffered slight leg bruises when his automobile jumped the highway near Edgeley after ramming a drove of pigs...
George Hedblom returned to active service after a ten day layoff necessitated by a leg injury, alternating with Bill Watt in the backfield. Tom Bilodeau reported in uniform, convalescing from a bad cold, Don Daughters again took no part in contact work, but will be ready for action Saturday. As things now stand, everybody on the squad will be in good condition for the Lord Jeffrey clash...
...neared Spain's West Point, suddenly and amazingly indomitable cadets poked the noses of machine guns from around splintered crags of the Alcázar, pressed the triggers and started a chug-chug of bullets most of which seemed to go low and catch the militia in the legs. As the Red charge broke and failed on the 59th day of the siege, its commander, Lieutenant Colonel Luis Barcelo, was carried off the field with a bullet in his leg, still crying with Spanish braggadocio: "Everything is going fine!" Explained one of his friends, Spanish Muralist Luis Quintanilla, Ernest...