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Ancient man's evolution into a creature standing on two legs modified his skeleton as well as his habits. The spine curved and grew longer; the ilia or wings of the pelvis flattened out; the last vertebrae became a flexible lever on which the body's weight was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: My Aching Back | 1/28/1946 | See Source »

The 16 smooth-surfaced canvases were standard O'Keeffe: quasi-mystical, highly polished designs inspired by New Mexican landscapes and still lifes. There was the bald roll and wrinkle of creviced hills, Black Place III, suggesting the convolutions of a human brain. There was the shock of a swatch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Money Is Not Enough | 2/5/1945 | See Source »

Louis B. Mayer, Hollywood's 59-year-old MGMagnate and No. 1 rumba enthusiast, got thrown from a horse, landed in the hospital with a broken pelvis.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Sep. 4, 1944 | 9/4/1944 | See Source »

There is a moment when the pelvis Explodes like a grenade . . .

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Angry Penguins | 7/17/1944 | See Source »

"Illogical As Bleedings." Most bedrest deaths are caused by big, migrating blood clots which form in veins constricted by the unnatural position. "In the last 300 autopsies on adults in [New York Hospital]," reported Dr. Dock, "15, or 5%, died of pulmonary embolism second ary to thrombi in the legs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: When Bed Is Bad | 4/24/1944 | See Source »

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