Word: legging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Crushed Legs. Like Sir Alexander Fleming's discovery of penicillin, the high blood pressure discovery was almost an accident. During London's 1941 air raids, doctors found that victims whose legs had been pinned under timbers or masonry for several hours sometimes died mysteriously of kidney failure. The puzzled doctors called this strange death "crush syndrome." To find out what a crushed leg had to do with the kidneys, Spanish-born Dr. Josep Trueta and four co-workers at Oxford's Nuffield Institute for Medical Research* began some blood-circulation experiments on rabbits...
...already provoking some violent opinions. The New York Daily News's inquiring reporter served up some samples. Herbert Bayard Swope thought the longer dresses neither revealing nor concealing-just dull. Onetime Cinemactress and Clothes Horse Gloria Swanson said: "They flatter those whose knees do not stand leg-revealing clothes." Look's Mrs. Gardner Cowles: "They make women look long, lean and restricted...
Commenting on the open class possibilities, Brooks said that he expects entries from Steve Wise, Varsity free-styler last winter, and Art Sicular, who swam the free-style, anchor leg on the Freshman relay team which defeated Yale last term...
...Italian immigrants who became coffee-workers in the little village of Brodowsky, in the state of São Paulo. One of twelve children, Candido began painting as a boy; itinerant painters who were redecorating the village church let him do the stars on the ceiling. Portinari broke his leg in a village football game, giving him a permanent limp. From then on, unable to play as his fellows did, he worked...
...miles southwest of Hawaii, an Army C46 and its crew of six smashed into a reef. Radioman Buster Bailey, 19, reached for a fire extinguisher, found that he had no hand. He crawled from the burning plane into knee-deep water, stumbled and discovered that his right leg was gone, too. His fellow crewmen got him to shore and tied their belts around his bleeding stumps...