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Shelved Hips. Dislocation of the hip is apt to recur when the muscles which hold the hip bone into the shallow hip socket have been weakened. Injury or infantile paralysis will do this. Dr. Marion Beckett Howorth of Manhattan invented a way of overcoming the slipping of the joint. He cuts through the flesh at the hip, lays bare the joint. Then he carefully breaks the part of the pelvic bone which forms the upper edge of the hip socket. The loosened piece of bone he bends down and wedges securely with bone grafts. After healing, the downturned chunk...
...held prisoner in Winnie Mae's cockpit by the railling, shouting mob. Post's Manager Lee Trenholm fought his way through, managed to hand Pilot Post a jug of ice water which he drained at a gulp, and a white handkerchief to cover his empty left-eye socket (he had lost his white patch in Alaska). Radio announcers all but jammed microphones down his throat. ''Where have you been since last Saturday?" Manager Trenholm asked obligingly for the benefit of radio's millions of listeners. "Damned if I know," Pilot Post drawled wearily...
...Louisville, Ky., Grace Vinning, 9, basked in her bath while her nephew Junior Carter, 6, played with an electric lamp on an extension cord. To see the reflection of the pretty light on the water he held it over Grace Vinning's bath, dipped it up to the socket, electrocuted his Aunt Grace...
...shore and heaved into place by Poet Jeffers for his own perch. For several years the stones rose in their courses; as they began to invade the upper air, a hawk dropped down to haunt them. Now Hawk Tower stands 30 ft. high; in its turreted top is a socket to hold a flag pole to flaunt a flag, though neither hawks nor Poet Jeffers favor flapping flags...
When Swiss watchmaking became standardized, divided among makers of various parts and the assemblers, Georges Pellaton retired. With time on his hands he set himself the task of devising a watch to run by electricity. Since nobody could carry a watch wired to a power socket, he had to put the power within the watch. After twelve years Watchman Pellaton perfected a storage battery no larger than the winding mechanism of an ordinary watch. The battery is recharged like any other storage battery, but very slowly. The charge lasts a year. It differs in principle from self-winding watches...