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...puddles, taking out segments of backbone one at a time. Finally the fishermen took pity, pitched in, and within a week the bones were rescued and stacked up. But on checking over their chart the museum men discovered that two extremely important bones were missing: the thin little pelvic bones with vestigial thigh bones which show that 60 or 70 million years ago whales had serviceable legs. Andrews and Clark sprinted to the try works where the blubber had already been plumped into a cauldron, fished around until the two little bones were retrieved...
...when the urgency of the case was explained to a district judge at Sapulpa he granted a special dispensation. Last November Juanita and Buster were married. In Sapulpa Hospital one night last week Juanita lay in childbed. As her labor pains mounted physicians saw that, because her pelvic bones were still immature, a normal delivery would be difficult, if not dangerous. They decided on a caesarean section. But Juanita's grandmother Annie Dick, who remembers when squaws had babies with less fuss than a hen laying an egg, stood out against it. All night long the physicians argued with...
...stepped, parachutes unfolding, into the black darkness over the mountains near Moulmein, Burma. The old Moulmein pagoda heard the shriek of wind against wires as the Frenchmen's plane roared to the ground with no one in control. The plane was demolished, mail was lost, Rossi fractured his pelvic bone, the hopes of Le Brix to outdo ''Doudou" Costes, who preëmpted the kudos of their 1928 world flight and thereby created a personal enmity, were shattered...
...before Christ. But tuberculosis appeared in the Fifth Dynasty (27th Century, B. C.) This mummy's spine was affected. Ramses V (circa, 11th Century, B. C.) had smallpox. Mummies packed away 6,000 years ago had gallstones. Gravel in the kidneys first appeared 5,000 years ago, and pelvic abscesses became a frequent affliction 30 centuries back...
Because of the vaselike construction of her pelvic bones, a woman, moving on her legs, must inevitably waddle. Some, as a result of careful rehearsal or athletic exercise, achieve a grace in waddling; almost none manage to run. In San Francisco a fortnight ago Miss Wanda Danley equaled the female world's record for a 100-yard dash ?11 2/5 seconds. This phenomenal pace could be equaled or eclipsed by almost any lean-shanked prep-school lad who is accounted a runner...