Word: legging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chester Scott Keefer of the Boston University School of Medicine reported a hopeful experiment with gramicidin. Instead of injecting it into the blood stream they trickled a few drops of gramicidin right on the wounds of several patients with ulcers and skin diseases. One patient who had a leg ulcer for 15 years was cured in three weeks. The others recovered even more rapidly. But the doctors made it clear that the dangers of gramicidin have to be tested more completely. It is still available only to research workers, is made only in minuscule quantities...
...Havana one day last week five Cubans boarded a Pan American Clipper, took off on the first leg of a 1,200-mile junket to Washington. Handpicked by President Batista, they were to start negotiations for the possible sale of Cuba's entire 1942 sugar crop-some 4,000,000 tons worth at least...
...pair of Coach Jim McDonald's charges, however, were not quite up to par. Halfback George Mallory still suffered an injured knee and only participated for a single quarter. Wes Truscott, although he played left outside for a time, was visibly hampered by old leg wounds...
...Most strain is on the extensor muscles of the leg, least on the flexors ; for example, the rudder pedal is kicked, not pulled. Cadets are trained to lie on their backs, kick their legs in bicycle movements...
...Hands. In Dorchester, Mass., Solomon Saltz, 31, decided to show some small boys how to kick a football. He kicked himself in the leg, broke it. In Watertown, N.Y., Cameron Town played football with his son and playmates. One of them stepped on his larynx, crushed...