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Notre Dame thrashed Northwestern 21 to 0. On the first kickoff, George Melinkovich made the longest run of the week, 98 yd. for a touchdown. Added misfortune for Northwestern was what happened to its amiable, hard-plunging halfback. Ernest ("Pug") Rentner; he broke a rib in the first quarter, found out about it at the half. McGuire of Wisconsin caught the kick-off and scuttled 85 yd. to a touchdown. Minnesota tied the score. Wisconsin got -another touchdown. Minnesota matched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: At College | 11/21/1932 | See Source »

...body and a fat head, who avows himself a small eater yet is clogged with his own metabolic products; the man becoming set about the neck and waist, who turns his body slowly rather than his head and eyes quickly, or who is bluish and breathless, losing his rib movements and wants to 'stay put.' Then the various gastrointestinal victims who need to be taught how to eat. how to digest, and to regulate their bowels, and perhaps to be cured of their 'conscious abdomens.' Then again the patient in the early diabetic stage where not only himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: B. M. A. | 8/8/1932 | See Source »

...Montgomery public by way of the Grand Theatre last night, and it further emphasized the fact that such shows cannot longer interest a leg-weary world." Twenty years ago and the public was leg weary. I am just wondering if the public hasn't finally become hip, rib, back and altogether sex weary by this time. I confess I am against the ropes. JASPER C. HUTTO Charlotte...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 11, 1932 | 1/11/1932 | See Source »

Next to swift death, the worst effect of infantile paralysis is inability to breathe. The rib-raising muscles which cause the lungs to expand are paralyzed. The victim soon suffocates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Respirator Gift | 9/21/1931 | See Source »

...This year the route for 120 feet was through the flank and then for a rope's length [80 ft.] through an ice couloir. After that one stood on a wide rib leading in a few minutes, rather easily, to the terrace of Camp Eight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Kanchenjunga Couloir | 8/31/1931 | See Source »

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