Word: rod
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Temporarily seated in the Varsity shell are: stroke, Toby Ross; seven, Hal Grant; six, Miles Wambaugh; five, Rod Perkins; four, Bob Macnamara; three, Tom Haymond; two, John Kettelle; and bow, Pete Roll. Coxing the boat is veteran Dan Paul...
After his exchange, U.S. Army doctors X-rayed the soldier's leg. They were amazed at what they saw: a half-inch metal rod of some kind had been rammed down the thighbone through the marrow for three-quarters of the bone's length, thus supplying a permanent, internal splint...
Mechanically, the surgeons agree, there is no reason such a splint should not work if the lower end of the rod were firmly wedged in hard tissue. But in the past, use of internal splints has been restricted to slim wire to align broken bones in fingers, toes and arms. In such cases, outside splinting is also used and the mended bones are not required to withstand any end-to-end pressure. They call the rod technique "a daring operation" and wonder how their German colleagues insert it without dangerously cutting down blood supply and without introducing infection. Surgeons...
Tokyo Rose, slangy, honey-voiced Japanese radio propagandist, down to her last half-dozen badly scratched, pre-Pearl Harbor phonograph records, evoked the aid of the Miami Rod & Reel Club, which appropriated $500 to supply her with fresh discs-through neutral channels "or by bomber over Tokyo...
...liked to sit up into the small hours with a brilliant circle of friends ? Oliver Goldsmith, David Garrick, Sir Joshua Reynolds, William Hogarth ? while James Boswell feverishly memorized his conversation. Johnson ruled the roost with a rod of iron. In return for his wit and brilliant common sense, his friends endured his incredible rudeness and prejudices...