Word: legging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sleepy Eye. Near Sleepy Eye, Minn., Truck Driver Louis Melzer was recovering nicely from multiple arm-and-leg fractures, after being knocked out in a collision, laid out on the highway by a good Samaritan, run over by a passerby, backed over by the same...
...Ladies Courageous (Universal) are Hollywood's idea of what women can do for the war and painful examples of what Hollywood, under the pressure of patriotism, can do to women. In the first, Hollywood vigorously shakes its own hand for letting some actresses go to shake a leg on the world battlefronts. In the second, Loretta Young, Geraldine Fitzgerald and Diana Barrymore pilot planes around...
...cellar they stumbled over a bag holding two human heads and a mutilated leg. They found another bag stuffed with a cloven corpse. In No. 21's furnace they found four charred female bodies. In No. 21's closets they picked up assorted limbs and 30 pairs of women's shoes. In No. 21's courtyard they dug into a lime-filled pit, hauled up the residue of 13 cadavers. But nowhere did they find the fiend responsible for France's goriest mass murder since whisker-ruffed Henri Désiré Landru, the 1920s...
Eventually Ellis discovered, from the way blood spurted from a tiny puncture, that spiders have high blood pressure. Somehow they seemed to be able to raise or lower the pressure in their legs. When Ellis bled a spider, its leg stretching became much weaker. In a report of his findings in the Biological Bulletin, he noted another curious fact: "Spiders nearly always die with their legs completely and permanently flexed...
With delicate and precise instruments, Biologist C. H. Ellis studied many kinds of spiders, including tarantulas and the poisonous black widow. Microscopic examination of their leg membranes, joints, tissues and nerves got him nowhere. But he noticed that even a dead spider leg would stretch if he squeezed it gently. He then injected liquids into spiders' legs with a superfine hypodermic and got some very satisfactory stretching. When he dehydrated spiders by keeping them for several weeks without water, they lost their stretching ability and walked with bent legs...