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Russian-born Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky, the eminent early birdman and aircraft designer, has never forgotten a monumental nosebleed he suffered as a boy of ten in the Czarist city of Kiev. As he sat with cold compresses on his neck and waited miserably for his veins to close, he fell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Uncle Igor & the Chinese Top | 11/16/1953 | See Source »

Had there been any trouble crossing the Pole? "No," said Blair, a veteran of 23 years and 3,000,000 miles of flying. "It was a very easy flight. I got a nosebleed once and couldn't reach back for a handkerchief. The engine kept throwing oil on the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: All That Ice | 6/11/1951 | See Source »

No Body. The durable Hearstling who caused all this commotion had been tempered in a harsh and gaudy school. At 19, Jack Campbell got a $6-a-week reporter's job on the San Francisco Chronicle, and covered the Barbary Coast when there was at least one good murder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: A Present for the Boss | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

Another prediction: that gelatin sponges would become standard equipment in family medicine chests as first-aid dressings for wounds and nosebleed.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Gelatin for Bleeding | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

Coach Harlow is not particularly eager to hold scrimmages with the material he has on hand; he is afraid of injuries to the boys. In fact, in one corner of the field where a backfield was merely running through signals, someone incurred a nosebleed.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dearth of Candidates Slows Spring Practice of Gridmen | 4/25/1946 | See Source »

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