Word: racks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last year Dean James McCawley Landis of Harvard Law School put alien, unnaturalized C. I. O. Longshoreman Harry Bridges to the legal rack, found that he could not legally be considered a member of the Communist Party. Radical Alien Bridges was therefore not subject to de portation by Madam Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins (TIME...
...Lucky Baldwin, James B. Haggin and Leland Stanford-California was second only to Kentucky in the business of breeding horses. Every summer, Breeder Haggin used to ship 300 thoroughbreds to the Saratoga yearling sales. When public indignation against gambling outlawed racing in California, its stud farms went to rack & ruin. With racing's revival in 1935, thoroughbred breeding became more than an industry, it became a mania...
...anybody believed the peace rumors that have circulated recently (TIME, Nov. 11), he knew better after what happened in Munich last week. The Royal Air Force made a raid on the city, somehow timed to coincide with Hitler's presence there, and somehow a rack of bombs aimed at the railroad station happened to overshoot its mark. Bombs splattered in Munich's streets. The world-wide broadcast of Hitler's speech was abruptly canceled...
...room whose windows looked out on a grove of larch trees, with placid fields beyond. His wife stayed with him. Occasionally his thin lips curled back from his long, uneven teeth in a grimace of pain. Once a German airman flew over Oldharn Village and dropped a rack of bombs. One fell within 40 yards of where Chamberlain lay and the man who had said "I think it is peace in our time" shuddered. When the end was near they gave him drugs to dull the pain. Later he sank into a coma. After a while he died...
Next, the leg is set in a "Griswold machine"-a 20th-century model of the rack. The pins are connected on both sides to a kind of caliper and the leg is gently stretched until the two broken ends snap into place. While a surgeon "reduces" the fracture, his assistant watches the bone through a fluoroscope to make sure the ends are fitted. The leg stays in the machine...