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...appealing little girl who has trouble walking because of a poorly act broken leg. They become fast friends, and O'Malley learns that she is the daughter of one John Phillips (Humphry Bogart) whom he has railroaded to the State Prison. Realizing his shortcomings, he has a famous doctor reset the girl's leg, obtains a parolo for Phillips, and, in short, "goes soft...

Author: By T. H. C., | Title: THEATRES ENTERTAINMENTS MOVIES | 2/27/1937 | See Source »

Connected with each electric chronometer is a regular clock with an automatic adjuster. If the current should be shut off and the telechron fall behind, it is not reset in the ordinary manner, but the automatic adjuster makes it function at twice its normal speed until it has caught up with the regular clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Synchronized Clock System Makes for Uniformity in Entire University Time | 12/8/1936 | See Source »

...across the plate. As he reached in to touch it, his shin cracked against Rookie Kies's leg-guard. Maranville turned a somersault, landed with the lower part of his left leg grotesquely dangling. It was broken in two places, five inches above the ankle. Doctors who reset it at a St. Petersburg hospital doubted whether Maranville would ever play baseball again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Maranville & Friends | 4/9/1934 | See Source »

...brought from reserve banks. Furthermore he ordered each bank to keep 85% of its cash in its vaults under time lock; when the vault was open to keep the bank's doors locked or have two armed guards stationed at the doors until the time lock was reset. Object: to bring down the high cost of holdup insurance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Cashier Cashiered | 8/14/1933 | See Source »

...Eyes Reset A frequent effect of goiter is protrusion of the eyes. Usually the eyes recede and cease staring upon the removal of the goiter. When this does not happen, it is because the muscles sur- rounding the eyeballs remain swollen to from three to eight times their normal size Dr. Howard Christian Naffziger of San Francisco relieved the pressure by enlargement of the passages through which the optic nerves and the arteries of the eyes reach the eyesocket from the interior of the skull. The popping eyes then reset themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A. M. A. at New Orleans | 5/23/1932 | See Source »

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