Word: spined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...asked one Headmaster after the Princeton meeting: "But what are the schools for if they don't stiffen the country's spine...
...Highness, the Maharani and Regent of Cooch Behar, a dashing young widow, lay and groaned in agony, last week, at a London hospital. Her spine had been distorted, almost snapped in twain. She had sustained this injury when a horse on which she was riding to hounds slipped, fell, rolled upon...
...Story: But for the neck, the weakest portion of the spine is the small-of-the-back. Old-time office chairs strain the spinal column. Armless revolving chairs pinch the back of the legs where the arteries come to the surface above the knee. This eventuates a cramped sensation. As remedy, the Sikes Chair Co. of Philadelphia has provided a posture chair. Since 1922 experiments had been conducted with the result that in 1927 came the "Perfect Posture Chair," the seat being shallower (13 in. instead of the usual 18 in.) and slightly tilted back-so that the sitter...
...hours after this take-off the Old Glory radio functioned perfectly, saying for the first 500 miles "all well." Then an electric whisper went up the spine of the listening world. SOS. Silence. Five minutes later another SOS. WRHP*?Five Hours out from Newfoundland, east. Silence...
Paralytic manifestations appear sometimes early, sometimes late. Recovery may be complete, or partial or complete disability develop. The central nervous system is attacked, sometimes involving the brain, always the spine...