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Pointing out that the college medical staff is "appointed to minimize the untoward results of athletics and to define as graphically and clearly as possible the end-results of treatment and those requiring special care," Thorndike contends "to dismiss a sprain of a ligament as a minor injury is a grave error...
...finally ended one afternoon last week on a playing field in Paris' jammed Colombes Stadium. There two soccer teams representing the bitter enemies of three wars met in their first international match since 1937. But there were no incidents. Players of each team, carefully briefed on avoiding an untoward explosion, treated their opponents with elaborate politeness; nobody got hurt except a German center forward who fell down all by himself and banged his knee...
...however your administrative duties do not permit such festivities. I shall prevent any untoward disaster from the furniture I have posted the articles so offensive to the Caretaking people with this notice. Maids a hazard, approach with caution. Further in view of the objecting of the Caretaking people to the low bottoms of the articles. I have posted them as follows. "MAIDS, do not crawl under, low clearance." Other matters prevent me from buying, selling or conveying furniture at this time. I shall he free in two weeks to examine the market for used furniture so that I shall...
Yale undergraduates have raised protests, against what they termed "untoward brutality" of the police in the riot which started when students protested police efforts to force an ice cream vendor to move...
...Croom-Johnson, "that he should not hypnotize her?" Barrister John Flowers, Queen's Counsel, replied only that "it would be better if he is not too close." "The jury," warned the Court, "will observe the defendant as they will observe the plaintiff. If there is danger of anything untoward happening, I also shall not be asleep...