Word: stitches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hayden Channing is another HYP veteran, placing fourth last year. Prior to this fall, Hayden almost always developed a stitch during the final mile of a race due to a torn muscle suffered while running during his public school days in England. So far this season, however, he has been able to complete the course without undue abdominal discomfort. Also subject to stitches is Axel Northrop, captain of last year's Freshmen. Developing one early in the Holy Cross meet, it forced him far down in the finishing order. Should he out-grow this affliction, as apparently did Hayden, however...
Driving alone in Los Angeles Newlywed Senator William Gibbs McAdoo of California, 71, swerved to avoid another car, crashed into a telephone pole. His injuries: fractured wrist, bruised chest, six-stitch nose gash...
...front with products for distribution. Now he is owner of a Back Bay rooming house and uses the proceeds from his knitting to help support Mrs. Cann who has become an invalid. Last week, Knitter Cann, whose strokes are old-fashioned and who can do only a plain stitch, went to the Tercentenary Committee's knitting bee intending to watch rather than compete, entered with misgiving when the committee asked for volunteers. He sat down, removed his coat, put his straw hat in his lap for a knitting basket, and revealed a smooth head fringed with grey. His prize...
Parading before a small army of men and women across the roof ballroom of Manhattan's respectable Hotel McAlpin last week were dozens of smiling young women who wore no dresses, no slips, not a stitch of clothing that anyone could see except a corset and a pair of stockings. Yet the hotel manager was not disturbed and no guest complained at the exhibition...
...lump lay beneath the scar of an incision made by a Manhattan doctor at the Hospital for the Ruptured and Crippled six years ago. To stitch up a hernia which Warden Lawes had incurred two years before while wrestling at New Orleans with Chaplain Robert Booth of Clinton Prison, the doctor had cleverly taken a strip of muscle from the patient's leg. The rupture incision healed quickly. The leg wound, on the contrary, took three months to close and ever since had given Warden Lawes trouble. Surgeon Sweet recently diagnosed the growth as a tumor which...