Word: legging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prosthetic research. ¶ Walter Bura, a 31-year-old civilian amputee with a bent for engineering, was appointed chief of the VA Division of Prosthetic Devices with the job of speeding new inventions to the wearable stage. Bura, who walks so well himself that no one realizes his leg is off above the knee, is credited with having "revolutionized" the Army's methods of teaching amputees to walk...
Halfback Davis has far too much leg drive to suffer comparison with such outstanding scat-backs as Yale's Albie Booth. Nor is he comparable to snake-hipped Red Grange. Junior carries a special kind of speed that is all his own. After a brief show of hippiness, enough to get around the end, he simply leans forward and sprouts wings. Once outside, he makes would-be tacklers look ridiculous as they try to cope with his speed, his willowy change of pace and starchy stiff arm. He has gained a grand total of 1,777 yards...
...little touching. But the play lets Frankie down as badly as his partner did. Intended as a colorful has-been, Frankie merely seems like something that never was. And as a story, Beggars is no Better. The flowering of romance between Frankie and the supper club's leg-some cigaret girl (Dorothy Comingore) is banal and forced. When Frankie tries to act tough, Playwright Reeves lets comedy seep into scenes that should be hard-hitting theater, and they wind up as nothing. The best things about Beggars are its amusing glimpses of nightclub office management and Jo Mielziner...
Special Delivery. In Miami, Dr. Manning J. Rosnick broke his leg on the way to the hospital, carried on, delivered an 8-lb. baby while balancing on one leg...
Spare Part. In Rio de Janeiro, an air line passenger who insisted on carrying his artificial leg instead of wearing it had to pay excess-baggage charges...