Word: limbed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Editorial writers throughout the land pointed out that Congress was getting itself out on a creaky limb. If Russia were suddenly to go down before the Nazis, just as the U.S. Army was well broken up, Congress would be in a fix much worse than mere embarrassment. Hitler would then have all of Europe and a big chunk of Asia. And the U.S. would be armed only with the tongues of its Congressmen...
...buckskin shorts and a permanent wave, Heroine Gifford, who is an agile five-foot-six, 121 lb., sound of wind and limb, undergoes some rather strenuous perils as Nyoka, daughter of Dr. Meredith, an emi ent physician consigned to darkest Africa by the nefarious activities of his twin brother. Off to Africa goes the twin upon learning that his brother is ministering to a native tribe with a storehouse full of diamonds. There he teams up with Slick Latimer to kill the good doctor and replace him. His true identity and devious intentions eventually reveal themselves to Nyoka, who, with...
Alfred S. Romer, for assistance in making wax plate reconstructions of the development of limb muscles of higher vertebrates preparatory to the publication of results...
Strong of mind and limb is John Taber, Republican Congressman from Auburn, N. Y. Tall, grey, fierce Mr. Taber bellowed so loud one afternoon last year that he jarred loose the stopped ear canals of Representative Leonard Schuetz of Illinois, restored Mr. Schuetz's hearing (TIME, May 20). On that day, as on many a day before and since, earnest, thrift-minded John Taber was snorting his wrath at Franklin Roosevelt, whom he always denounced as the wrong man to trust with a taxpayer's dollar. One day last week Republican Congressmen burst out of a party caucus...
...potatoes anyway whether wheat is sent or not. The end justifies the means. It is true, however, that feeding France will relieve Hitler of a responsibility and increase German supplies. But we must choose between a generation of Europe that is dwindled in numbers, malformed in mind and limb that remembers the Allies as their false friends, and a generation more numerous at least, and healthy and prepared to work for democracy, whence came their help. Holmes H. Welch...