Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Harvard students, as representatives of a sex noted for their lack of concern for domestic matters, vociferously protest the condition of their rooms. It is time to sit up and take notice. When a bed feels like a corrugated tin roof, when dust covers every object and piles high in neglected corners, irritation reaches a fever pitch. No blame can be attached to the goodies, they do remarkably well considering their human limitations. Rushing about the room, duster and mep in hand, with the speed of an express train is the only possible way for a goodie to clean...
...used to have, better than any other of my college adventures. What jolly times we had--you know once a month all the fellows would chip in and we would buy a keg"--the Major chuckled to think of this old-time deviltry--"We used to raise the roof. Did you ever hear about Charley--S. M. Charley '07? One night we had to take the door to the Sanctum of its hinges and carry him home on it. Yes, indeed, those were the days...
Last week Drs. Samuel Kleinberg and Herman Solomon Lieberman of Manhattan offered a reliable indicator. On an x-ray picture of the child's torso they draw a line through the centres of both hips. Then they draw a line through the roof of each hip socket (acetabulum). The angles formed by the roof lines crossing the centre line the doctors call the acetabular index. In normal hips the angles measure between 20° and 27.5°. If the angles exceed 27.5°, dislocation probably will occur...
...roof of the hip socket is gristly and elastic for many months after a baby is born. To overcome congenital dislocation of the hip, the orthopedist need simply spread-eagle the baby's legs with a brace or v-shaped mattress for about six months. The spread-eagling forces the hip bones into their sockets, which yield enough to make permanent receptacles. If the bracing is done before the child is six months old, he will suffer little inconvenience or pain. In the second six months bones start to become rigid and the operation becomes more difficult and painful...
...accommodate 12,000 worshippers the Abyssinian Baptist Church holds three or four services every Sunday, runs two Sunday schools with 1,000 members each. Also it maintains a Community House with gymnasium and roof garden, Home Economics and Health Education departments, a weekday Church School for children, the nation's largest Daily Vacation Bible School, an employment agency, a Music School, a Dramatic School and 53 clubs and auxiliaries. Furthermore the Church supports a missionary in Africa, a summer camp, a chair at Virginia Union University and an Old Folks Home. And lastly there is the Friendly Society which...