Word: upper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...incinerator open. A few minutes later a passer-by flipped a cigaret into the opening, whence it dropped to the basement on a pile of refuse. It took the services of the whole House janitorial staff to extinguish the blaze, which threatened to asphyxiate the residents of the upper floors...
...weakened. Injury or infantile paralysis will do this. Dr. Marion Beckett Howorth of Manhattan invented a way of overcoming the slipping of the joint. He cuts through the flesh at the hip, lays bare the joint. Then he carefully breaks the part of the pelvic bone which forms the upper edge of the hip socket. The loosened piece of bone he bends down and wedges securely with bone grafts. After healing, the downturned chunk of pelvis acts like a claw to hold the hip bone within its socket. The new grip is just tight enough to let the leg swing...
...shoulder he must ordinarily be careful not to reach too roughly, for probably one-third of dislocated shoulders repeat the accident. Dr. Toufick Nicola of Manhattan prevents the repetition by cutting part of one of the tendons of the shoulder joint (biceps tendon) and drilling a hole through the upper portion of the arm bone (humerus). Dr. Nicola then laces the cut biceps tendon through the hole and fixes it at the other end of the joint. The tendon thus effectively straps the loose joint together...
Jerome D. Greene '96, Secretary to the Corporation, will speak to the members of the Memorial Society on the plans for the Tercentenary celebration, at a meeting to be held in the Adams House upper common room on February...
Since the purpose of last year's rulings was to allow upper-classmen freedom in regulating their work, the College should be satisfied if men fulfill the standards demanded by their examinations. Although violations of the confidence will inevitably be made, a compromise with the underlying theory does not give these principles adequate chance for success. Preferably, upperclassmen not on probation should be allowed to cut at their pleasure; at any rate, the College should mete out similar treatment to each member of the two classes...