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...Percy Williams, famed Canadian sprinter, with a pulled thigh muscle, over a sodden track: the 100-yd. dash in the fine time of 9.9 sec. at the Empire Games in Hamilton, Ont. England, with 25 points, won the meet; Canada was second with 17; South Africa third with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won Sep. 1, 1930 | 9/1/1930 | See Source »

Picadors' right legs must be sheathed in metal to mid-thigh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: New Bull Rules | 7/28/1930 | See Source »

Moss grown on a human skull, the thigh bone of a hanged man, the ashes of a coal-black cat's head, animal excrement, black tips of crab's claws, burned hart's horn, toads, newts, serpents-these were medi- eval medicaments whose use has not yet entirely disappeared. Last week the American Medical Association reported a Frenchman's use of viper heads as a diuretic. Professor G. Billard of the Uni-versity of Clermont was consulted in a young girl's case of scarlet fever. Her kidneys would not function. Professor Billard had recently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Viper Heads | 7/28/1930 | See Source »

Rescuers found Segrave half floating in his life-preserver. His arms were broken, a thigh and rib were fractured, a lung was punctured. He died that night, happy in the knowledge that the record was his. His mechanic was drowned. His engineer was badly hurt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Death of Segrave | 6/23/1930 | See Source »

...Hunter was throwing up the ball to serve when the Texan, with a faint moan, fell over on his face. Howard Voshell, the referee, carried him to the sidelines, and Hunter's trainer worked for a minute to loosen the cramp which Bell indicated as having stricken his left thigh. The crowd expected him to come out of the club after a rest and go on with the match, but Hunter ended that possibility. Angry, quiet, decisive, he picked up his rackets, threw his white sweater over his shoulders, marched into the locker room, claimed the match by default. Bell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Davis Cupmen | 5/5/1930 | See Source »

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