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Word: legging (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...male counterpart, "Normman," were modeled by Gynecologist Robert Latou Dickinson and Sculptor Abram Belskie. "That American look," observes Dr. Harry L. Shapiro, the Museum's curator of physical anthropology, has changed considerably since the 1890s. The modern girl is taller (5 ft. 3½ in.), longer in the leg, thicker in the waist (26.4 in.), and has slightly heavier hips (37.4 in.) and legs than the 1890 girl. But, thanks to a bigger bust (33.9 in.) and torso, her figure looks better proportioned, at least to the anthropologists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Shape We're In | 6/18/1945 | See Source »

...right and rear, there is no telling where [the] disaster might have ended. . . . His subsequent night attack against Jackson was one of the most brilliant actions in military history." But General Sickles' major achievement was his stand against Longstreet at Gettysburg. It also cost Sickles his right leg from the thigh down. His military career was over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Yankee King of Spain | 6/18/1945 | See Source »

...leg-a regional chain, one link of stations in a network...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Radio Webster | 6/11/1945 | See Source »

Eight to the Bar. In Richmond, Mrs. Pauline E. Conlon, a professional dancing teacher, asked the court for a divorce from her 15th husband, claiming that he beat her over the head once too often with his artificial leg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 4, 1945 | 6/4/1945 | See Source »

...First leg in the 72 week pilot training program is the 26 week pre-flight training as aviation cadets, class V-5, at either Chapel Hill, North Carolina, or Athens, Georgia. The preliminary course completed, the cadets proceed to primary training at any one of a number of Navy fields, where they will be stationed for approximately 16 weeks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Navy Aviation Open Again for Volunteers | 5/29/1945 | See Source »

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