Word: trunkful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...profile with only two feet, they are among man's earliest attempts at graphic representation, doubtless done early in the Aurignacian period. But the Mtoko mural is richest in its examples of later (Solutrean, Magdalenian, Mesolithic, Neolithic) art work, whose humans are always drawn in the frontal, wedge-trunk position (as in Egyptian art), whose women are handily identified by little bumps on their chests and whose animals, the quagga and antelope, are far more accurately observed and gracefully drawn than the people. There are also mystic lozenges, snaky lines and blobs which apparently are respectively symbols for mountain...
...great swelling follows contusion of arm or leg, tension in the tissues should be relieved quickly by bold incisions into the flesh on opposite sides of the limb. Copious dressings of weak bichloride of mercury solution will then promote healing. Such incisions are rarely necessary for contusions of the trunk or head. "An uncomplicated wound should not cause intense pain...
From the early and relatively short-lived off-shoots of the main mammalian trunk, the Harvard Paleontologists assembled many specimens. Of the family of cynodonts,--small, dog-sized, carnivorus lizards,--they obtained the finest fossils ever found in the Americas. The collection includes a large number of complete cynodont skeletons and skulls in good preservation. The world's chief cynodont deposits are in South Africa, and hitherto only fragmentary skulls of this family have been found in South America...
...free-for-all race was a tree in which a live raccoon was tied high and safe. First to reach the tree was a 4-year-old redbone coon hound named Rudd. The race was over but Rudd did not know it. Up the slightly slanting tree trunk he clambered some 18 ft., clung there until a ladder intended for the coon was used to retrieve him (see cut). Amazed coon-hunters, who had often seen their dogs scramble a few feet up a tree and somersault back, swore they had never seen anything like that climbing coon dog Rudd...
...second method by which the trunk weight can be transferred until it rests over the forward foot, is called the suction step. This suction step, which starts from the same straight foot-forward position, is not the work of the backward leg, but makes the transference of the weight the task of the front leg. The forepart or ball, of the forward foot (heel raised) must be implanted upon the floor, and must 'grip' the floor so firmly that the forward leg is able, by means of this firm 'grip,' to draw the trunk forward...