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The business of standing up started a whole series of disorders stemming from the extra stress & strain put on the lumbosacral area, keystone of the spine. Practically everyone at one time or another has back pains. The only exception: toddlers, who temporarily retain a few quadruped characteristics.

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

The Control Council is supposed to coordinate all four administrations and make this quadruped walk like a man. But, according to a previously unknown provision, the Council can do nothing unless its decision is unanimous. Lacking unanimity, the four powers may proceed independently in their individual zones. By withholding agreement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE OCCUPATION: Toward Control | 6/18/1945 | See Source »

Postwar Plans. In San Francisco, waiting out the war and trying to keep track of her family, is Mrs. Simon Bolivar Buckner,* who was born Adele Blanc, in New Orleans, but moved to Kentucky "when she was a quadruped." Her elder son, Simon Bolivar III, is a captain in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Buck's Battle | 4/16/1945 | See Source »

Quadruped."

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ibis Rats on Dodoes, Lets Cat Out of Bag | 2/2/1945 | See Source »

"I hope he Knox Hill out'a him," muttered Wun Hug, Huey's girl friend, apparently referring to the horned quadruped, as Huey skirted down the sidelines.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Harvard on Opp and Opp With Chips on Table"-Husy | 10/25/1941 | See Source »

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