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...First, after the foot is placed, pointing straight ahead, in the foot-forward position without weight, we can, by raising the heel of the backward supporting leg shove or propel the trunk weight into the forward leg. This raising of the heel of the back leg to propel the weight of the trunk forward into space, until it rests over the advanced foot, is known as the propulsive step...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Posture Lady | 4/5/1937 | See Source »

...neck), and which car ries a grappling mechanism like a clam dredge or steam shovel (the mouth). Thanks to muscles which act as motors, tendons which transmit tension and skeletal parts which serve as levers and fulcrums, the tower-like legs may change into powerful jointed springs which propel the whole structure forward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Savants in Chicago | 11/30/1936 | See Source »

...double staterooms with connecting baths, main saloon, dining saloon, galley with an electric refrigerator. The forecastle will quarter some 20 Chinese seamen. Subscribing Shipmates subject to seasickness may pay the extra cost of having their bunks hung on gimbals like a binnacle. There will be twin Diesel engines to propel the craft through the windless Red Sea, and a short-wave radio to broadcast its progress to the waiting world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Junk de Luxe | 2/10/1936 | See Source »

...Propel her through the water...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRAYER | 1/29/1936 | See Source »

Mounting the first tee with quaking kness this afternoon, Mayor Richard M. Russell '14 will attempt to propel the white pellet far down the fairway, as the City of Cambridge formally opens its first venture into the ancient and honorable game of gowf...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RUSSELL'S DRIVE WILL OPEN NEW GOLF COURSE | 6/13/1934 | See Source »

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