Word: limbs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pedroso has been experimenting extensively on rats, and is sure that the results would be the same on human beings. He takes blood from one limb, passes it through an apparatus he has invented where it is treated with heat, electricity, or serum as the case may be, and then back into another limb. His object is then reached and the transmutation is a fait accompli...
...daily risk life and limb crossing Massachusetts Avenue to catch a subway train "in town" we are likely to take this Cambridge of ours very much for granted. But at this time of anniversary celebrations it is instructive and amusing to glance at the past. Cambridge, even, was young once...
...feature, rushing and passing, being used to gain ground, we have forward passing. Games may be won only by forward passing, or fumbling. The game requires masses of opposing players to meet at a point running at full speed in opposite directions and is therefore dangerous to life and limb. The game has become commercialized and so dominated by paid coaches that they oppose any changes which might interfere with their vested interests...
...quite a jump from D. T. McCord's "The Ups and Downs of Skiing," to Mr. R. Emerson's "Religion--Past, Present, and Future." After a brief, dizzy excursion into space we wake up in bed to find only one limb out of a possible four functioning properly. Then Mr. Emerson comes along and prescribes a rather ambitious, eloquent, inaccurate order of Religion. We refuse to swallow...
...Football is so inherently rough and can be made so brutal, a menace not only to limb but to life, that when it is played out of the control of self-respecting universities, colleges and schools it requires supervision by the authorities no less rigid than is exercised over the prize ring. Football may be a game or it may be a fight. In any event it is peculiarly a college sport and has many features that cannot be transplanted to mercenary soil. One of them is the amateur flavor of intercollegiate football--one of its very greatest assets; professionalism...