Search Details

Word: tourniquetting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1926-1926
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...wooden leg was an asset but the good leg was a liability. People looked coldly at the liability, passed by. One Malcolm Norris, 21, beggar, sat in a San Francisco street last week, pondered, arose, hobbled to a railroad track. He bound a rude tourniquet above his knee, thrust out the liability to convert it into an asset, as a train snorted by. The conversion failed; he died three hours later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Fond | 10/25/1926 | See Source »

| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | Next