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Word: limbed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army has undertaken no research whatever. Nearly all Army amputees are discharged as soon as they are fitted with temporary prostheses. These are made of stock parts manufactured by commercial limb-makers and fitted by hastily-trained G.I.s. They often break down. The limb-makers say part of the trouble is the Army's insistence on using its own personnel as fitters, instead of civilian experts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: For Neglected Heroes | 8/27/1945 | See Source »

Senator Happy Chandler, newly-crowned czar of baseball, crept out on a limb for this epic struggle by declaring. "This great game will undoubtedly the greatest of all the when it returns by the forefront to proclaim its possibility of ability. I firmly believe that baseball can played in several episodes which must...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nation Hails 23-2 Win Tomorrow As Diamond Struggle of the Ages | 5/11/1945 | See Source »

...Athens hospitals, with no food, coal, telephone, medical supplies or even water, were desperate. Many patients were phonies, with fake bandages and Tommy guns. Filth and refuse, including an occasional dead body or limb removed at the operating table, lay untouched below the hospital windows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Bostonian in Greece | 4/16/1945 | See Source »

...this best-covered of all wars, the press contingent on Okinawa last week was a small army in itself. Scrabbling over 2-to-12-mile wide Okinawa, at risk of life & limb, to give the U.S. all the facts it wanted to know-and a few to spare-were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Covering Okinawa | 4/16/1945 | See Source »

...Carrolls" has reversed the usual procedure by opening here after two super-successful years on Broadway. Instead of limb-climbing, the reviewer must now try to analyze what made this play the smash...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PLAYGOER | 3/23/1945 | See Source »

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