Word: legging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...veterans drawing pay for disabilities in no way connected with the War. Only those permanently and totally disabled in civil life stay on the rolls, and they get $20 per month instead of $40. Veterans with service-connected disabilities take a 20% cut. The blind soldier with a leg blown off in action now drawing $275 per month must get along...
...wife waited in their car, hale George Brinton McClellan, 67, three-career man (New York City's one-time Mayor and Congressman, Princeton professor, author), namesake son of the famed Civil War General, tried to cross the narrow creek bed. slipped on the concrete bottom, breaking his leg. For half an hour before his wife heard him he lay half under water, unable to rise, calling for help...
...sight of a mouse, pivoting on a hind leg, gyroscopically whirling around 416 times without stopping or reversing might reasonably lead the observer to conclude that he or the mouse was drunk. Yet sober scientists have watched a sober mouse perform this very feat. The whirler was a Japanese waltzing mouse. It whirled because of a physical defect, probably of its inner...
...baby mouse waltzer begins to dance when it is one week old. Thereafter, think scientists, its life is a frantic quest for the balance which it cannot feel on a horizontal plane. Sometimes it whirls on a hind leg, sometimes runs in circles or figure-eights, always twitching, jerking, swaying its head. Occasionally an accomplished mouse varies the routine with a shuffling backstep. Sometimes the mice dance together, one spinning on a hind leg while another runs circles around it. They like to run on treadmills, through tunnels, over bridges, up inclines...
...Roosevelt held his first two press conferences. To the first went 120 newshawks who applauded when he announced his system of verbal questions & answers, "off the record" confidences and short-hand record of everything said. To the second conference flocked 60. The President sat through it with his right leg cocked over his left knee and his right trouser leg hiked up almost to his knee. Asked if he enjoyed his first night in the White House, he replied: "Off the record, I haven't got much sleep since I've been here." Associated Pressman Francis Stephenson...