Word: spined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...floor, harangued the children, cooked the food, ate her heart out. On the day Knapp lost his position he came home to find his house on fire; he climbed up on the icy roof, praying that he would slip. He did. Down to the pavement he fell, injured his spine, with resulting paralysis of the legs. The next week Mrs. Knapp went to the store, got a job in the cloak-and-suit department, worked to the top until she was making three times as much as her husband ever did. He, though not adept at darning socks, made...
...Republican Party. "Except where it has been compelled to follow the paths made by the Wilson Administration it has been as spine less as a Burbank cactus...
...chiropractor, one Ernest G. Meyer, called to see a child suffering with diphtheria. Failing to make a proper diagnosis, he treated the condition by manipulations of the spine. Last week a jury in the Brooklyn Supreme Court found him guilty of manslaughter, on account of "culpable negligence," for which the maximum penalty is imprisonment for from ten to twenty years...
Said Dr. Marshall Osnato, of Manhattan: "It is extremely unlikely that a drug which acted as a sedative when administered into the stomach or veins would be a permanent cure when injected into the spine...
...Pathfinder, a reputable weekly published in Washington, announced the birth in Pennsylvania of a baby, having "no spine, no ribs, no hip bones. . . . The lower part of the body tapers to an end that has the appearance of a hand or foot, web-like in formation...