Word: thighed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Senator after Senator leaped to his feet to describe how the President's decree caused suffering and destitution among disabled veterans. West Virginia's Hatfield, a physician, produced an x-ray picture of a man whose thigh had been shot away and whose spine was full of shrapnel splinters. "A hopeless cripple," pronounced Dr. Hatfield, "and his allowance is to be cut from $120 to $80 per month." Pennsylvania's Reed told of a veteran with one leg shot off in battle who that very morning had hobbled into his office to protest...
Asked if his brand of soul vibrations might not prove in the end tedious. Dr. Goebbels slapped his thigh. "You know me!" he cried. "I am a sworn enemy of every sort of boredom! . . . Best of all, our propaganda is not going to cost the German people anything. Instead my Ministry cannot fail to show a profit- the radio advertising, you know...
...cars, was once attacked while driving alone. He routed the assailants by guiding his car with one hand, firing his rifle pistol-wise with the other. During the ten years' work only two serious accidents occurred in the field. First was Dr. Andrews' shooting himself in the thigh. The other accident was a man's cutting a leg artery. At the very beginning of the work Dr. Andrews' eyes became infected. Thenceforth he has been obliged to wear glasses...
...apparent cure of a case of bone cancer by means of arsenic warranted reporting in the current issue of the Canadian Medical Association Journal. A Toronto woman, Mrs. R- F-, had a cancer on her left thigh bone. High voltage X-ray treatment for eight months produced no observable good...
...loss on Saturday of three key men, Crickard, Hageman, and Hardy, had made Harvard supporters anxious for the coming games, but both Hageman and Hardy will be out for practice today, and Crickard's contusion of the thigh will at the most keep him out of the Brown game. Incidentally, Wells played through practically the whole Dartmouth game with a broken left hand. Dr. Thorndike stated last night, however, that the first-string quarterback will be in condition to practice this week...