Word: legging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...raised to the normal number of 30 or 40 a minute for a period of three minutes. Such stimulation, if cautiously and skillfully applied, has worked wonders with "old" paralysis, wrote Dr. Richard Kovacs of Manhattan. After four weeks of electric stimulation, he said, one patient with an "atrophied leg ... of 18 years' standing" was able to bend her knee again...
Myers was kept out of Varsity basketball until last year with a leg injury, but then as a Junior he set the League on fire. he played 416 out of a possible 480 minutes and rang up 119 points to rank fourth in this department behind Dartmouth's Broberg, Penn's Mischo, and Cornell's Foertsch. He was voted a position on the coaches' All-League quintet...
...young woman who complained that she trembled, was stiff in the knees and neck, could not sleep. Dr. Rathbone found that the patient was 30, unmarried, that her fiance had lost his job, that she had been financially ruined by the Depression, that she had recently broken a leg. Dr. Rathbone's (and her patient's) conclusion: "Must overcome tenseness to regain health...
Fouled while shooting in the first quarter, Peabody fell and pulled a ligament in his left leg. The full extent of his injury, however, is not yet known...
Marx Bros. At The Circus (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) checks the recent decline in Marx Brothers' pictures with two of their fastest, funniest sequences-a riotous Newport society and circus climax, and Groucho doing a combination rumba, tango and nautch dance with one pant leg kitten-ishly hoisted while he sings of his tattooed lost love, Lydia that Encyclopedia...