Word: stumps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...primaries were nearly over; in most States the successful candidates had already begun to stump for the November elections. In the last remaining primaries, voters cast their party ballots, drew up November's battle lines...
Significant new face in Minnesota politics: eloquent, statesmanlike Dr. Walter H. Judd, 44, who spent the better part of a decade in China as a medical missionary, watched the war in the Far East, returned to the U.S. in 1938 to stump for a boycott and embargo against Japan. In Minnesota's Fifth District last week, Newcomer Judd won the Republican nomination for Congress nearly 3-to-2 over excitable, table-pounding incumbent Oscar Youngdahl, who did not recognize the Japanese menace until last...
...Pete uses the same stance and swing as most ballplayers. But his fielding is almost incredible. In one flashing paroxysm, he catches the ball in his gloved left hand, tucks it under his right stump, shakes the glove off, grabs the ball and throws. The second or two lost in this complicated motion are made up for by Gray's powerful and accurate peg. So far this season, no errors have been chalked against...
During World War I an ingenious German surgeon, Ernst Ferdinand Sauerbruch, developed a plastic operation to link the muscles of an amputated stump to an artificial arm so efficiently that the live muscles could operate the fingers of an artificial hand. In a new book two German refugee surgeons describe the classic Sauerbruch technique (Cineplastic Operations on Stumps of the Upper Extremity; Grune & Stratton...
...same operation is repeated on the other side of the arm. After the canals heal, an ivory peg is inserted in each one, and the patient practices moving these pegs with the stump muscles. Later on, a special artificial arm, made of many interacting levers and joints enclosed in leather, is fitted to the ivory pegs...