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Fradd, in his conditioning work, stressed exercises which involved the large trunk muscles--bending and streching in the prone, supine, and sitting positions...

Author: By Melvin J. Kessel, | Title: '46 IMPROVES ON STEP TEST | 1/20/1943 | See Source »

When the fiery little Mayor ran bookmakers out of Times Square, they simply moved across the Hudson River to New Jersey, kept their Manhattan phone numbers, hired special trunk lines so that their patrons could still call them for a nickel. Last week the Mayor finally got the telephone company to discontinue the lines. The only noticeable result, as noted by cynical New York Mirror Sportswriter Dan Parker: "Bookmakers' clerks . . . [have] writer's cramp from notifying their clients by mail every day what the new telephone number...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Pilgrim's Progress | 11/23/1942 | See Source »

...children still foetal, one blue-veined crimson hydrocephaloid boy on its stomach, another urinating. Persistent spectators sooner or later discovered that Hide-and-Seek was a puzzle picture. What gave form to the whole work was a great gnarled tree, whose branches traced the outlines of a hand, its trunk an immense human foot. Said the creator of this startling canvas: "[Painting] consists in three different subjects happening in three separate moments of time and seen from three points of view which must correspond to the three levels of perspective...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Why There Is Why | 11/9/1942 | See Source »

...available locally in all the gasoline-rationed areas. It does, however, require a stovelike generator to convert the wood into combustible gases for the engine. This means a new diversion of semiprecious light steel or cast iron. The generator can be mounted on the rear bumper, the trunk compartment or the rumble seat, can be charged with coal or charcoal, but more cheaply with a charge of equal parts of sawdust and chopped or "hogged" wood. A carefully controlled draft prevents complete combustion of the wood while generating carbon monoxide, the fuel actually used by the motor. The combustible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Wood Instead of Gasoline | 9/7/1942 | See Source »

...exhibition, thought it might look well four times as big. His opportunity came when he heard that a sequoia tree standing on the slopes of the Sierras had been weakened in a Mt. Whitney hurricane, and could be cut down. Barnes trucked an 18-ft. section of its trunk down the mountains to Threerivers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Tree Carver | 7/27/1942 | See Source »

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