Word: ribbed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...took his application, which asked assignment to the aviation service, gave him a 5-franc piece. Lest Lord Edward turn back, his sister, Lady Louise, put him on a train with soap and toothbrush. In barracks at Toul, between a pair of Saar refugees he fell downstairs, dislocated a rib...
Perhaps she was never as strong and sturdy as her builders calculated on paper. Perhaps she had never really recovered from an old rib injury last year. Perhaps the wet windy weather had something to do with it. Or perhaps the crew was somehow at fault. Nevertheless orders are orders and therefore the U.S.S. Macon soared away from her Sunnyvale mooring mast on schedule early one morning last week to take her usual part in fleet maneuvers off the California coast. In command of the Navy's one & only dirigible and her 82 officers & men was Lieut. Commander Herbert...
...operator of the elevators in the control car felt the wheel jerked out of his hands. Wallowing like a wounded whale, the Macon rolled over on her side, stuck her nose into the air, started to climb. The lookout atop the great bag telephoned the control car that a rib had snapped in the framework, that No.1 gas cell near the fin had ripped open. Steady as a stone, Commander Wiley ordered gas valved from the forward cells, all water ballast and emergency fuel aft dumped, the engines slowed down, in a vain attempt to level the ship...
...spleen, lying just under the lowest left rib, is a kind of junkman of the blood stream. It collects worn-out blood cells, breaks them up and sends the debris to the liver. Marvin Goodman's spleen, ten times oversize, destroyed his red blood cells with mad indiscrimination. As a result, he became anemic. His skin turned yellow, then green. His weight fell from 150 lb. to 90 lb. in six months. He obviously was dying of hemolytic jaundice...
...fact that fourteen men were removed from the injury list only yesterday might decrease Harvard's chances tomorrow, for Captain Oakes has been out all week with a broken rib received in the Jayvee game, and Pope, with a knee injury, may not be able to play. But a squad of experienced reserves are ready to back up the starting eleven. HARVARD '38 YALE '38 Colwell, l.e. r.e., Gallagfier Kevorkian, l.t. r.t., Dickens Glueck, l.g. r.g., Ogan Wysocki, c. c., Lowndes Allen, r.g. l.g., Castle Maser, r.t. l.t., Weed Ingalls, r.e. l.e., Peterson O'Toole, qb. q.b., Ewart Nesmith, l.h.b...