Word: legging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...horse's bones are not extraordinarily brittle, but a horse's weight and its momentum often produce breaks that are too much for veterinary skill or owner's purse. But veterinary surgeons can heal many a horse's broken leg. One method: Cincinnati dentist, Dr. Peter Wehner, uses a cast made of dental stone, says he can mend even a compound fracture. Though Dr. Wehner has successfully treated four race horces, none of his patients has raced again...
...James Herbert Fay. Purgee O'Connor and Candidate Fay are to the naked eye as much alike as two Irish politicians, but Mr. Fay, unlike Mr. O'Connor, was born in the Gashouse, has lived there all his 39 years. Short, barrel-chested, he lost his left leg in the Argonne at 19, now gets about nimbly on an artificial one. President of Tammany's Anawanda Club, Jim Fay ran against John O'Connor for Congress in 1934, lost by 101 votes. Since 1935 he has held a $4,600 job as Chief Field Deputy Collector...
...fall. The ape, of the family Australopithecus transvaalensis, lived in the Pleistocene days, when Pithecanthropus and Sinanthropus were already beating down lesser men. Since South Africa was treeless, Australopithecus must have walked on the ground. Whether it walked human-fashion is not known, since the bones of the lower leg have not been found, but certain it is that it carried itself like an ape, because its head was hafted to its neck like that of a gorilla or chimpanzee. The horrifying feature of Dr. Broom's fossil was a set of human teeth, neatly arranged...
...Klein. Question-marks are Chief Boston, out of spring practice due to illness and an appendix operation, center Tim Russell, injured practically all of last season, and Torby MacDonald, sensational wingback, who took the place of the injured Bob Stuart last year, but who has been harassed by leg-trouble since...
...years ago, as Svend Hansen, 40, clipped hedges in an Irvington, N. Y. garden, he was stung on the leg by a bee, fell unconscious. Twelve hours later, Hansen was revived by adrenalin and artificial respiration. Last week, as he worked in the garden, he was stung on the neck by a bee. In 15 minutes Svend Hansen was dead...