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Word: shoulder (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ticknor's pre-season neck injury will prevent his playing this spring, and Martin Lindsay's unhealed shoulder separation has cut the South African contingent to three: Lionel Bryer, John Chalsty, and Pat Latham...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 1/20/1956 | See Source »

...packed and pulsating place with a rich but brief past in a singularly unpredictable life expectancy. It is the last true colony of size and importance in all Asia, and it perches in incongruous complacency on the coast of Communist China like a fat canary on the shoulder of a hungry tomcat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hong Kong: Main Door to Communist China: A remarkably unfrightened place | 1/16/1956 | See Source »

Most artificial arms are based on a simple principle: mechanical linkage carries muscle power to the artificial limb, from either the shoulder or the stump muscles. Convinced that mechanically transmitted muscle power was not the best solution, Professor Siegmund Weil and Technician Otto Häfner of Heidelberg University set out to develop a light, small and more efficient substitute. This week, after seven years of research, they were busy teaching amputees how to use their invention: an artificial arm operated by pressurized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pneumatic Arm | 1/2/1956 | See Source »

...biggest presents under his tree. I know that you probably doubt that he exists because to you old Kris is just another bourgcols fairy tale for fooling the downtrodden proletarians, but he certainly believes in you. I know that he does because I've been peeking over his shoulder the last few days and saw what he had beside your name. I just thought you might like to know how things stand between...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yes, Nikita . . . | 12/21/1955 | See Source »

...South. Although he is only 46, he grew up in a Florida as different from today's as the pinewoods around his native Tallahassee are from the palmy patios of the Miami Beach hotels. The Florida he remembers meant the jolt of a single-barreled shotgun on his shoulder and a bobwhite dropping through the yellow winter sunlight at the edge of a slash-pine grove. Or a 15-lb. turkey gobbler hurtling into a charge of No. 6 shot, and then falling through the Spanish moss on the oaks onto the dry palmettos below. Or the catfish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FLORIDA: A Place in the Sun | 12/19/1955 | See Source »

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