Word: upper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tennis meet between Winthrop and Kirkland, scheduled for Friday, but rained out, was played off yesterday, with Kirkland gaining the upper hand, four matches to three. The No. 7 match, which decided the series, was taken by Kirkland when Winthrop defaulted...
...Rzhev. House by house the Germans defended the city which had been their most advanced headquarters on the northern front. Churches and other thick-walled structures had been turned into small fortresses, with mortars and machine guns on the street level, tommy guns poking from every opening in the upper stories. Slowly the Red Army pushed on, clearing out every gun-bristling nest, every German battery station. After 19 days Rzhev was largely in Russian hands, its fall seemed near...
...hundreds of bays and inlets along the upper Atlantic Coast this week there was a splash of activity: the oyster season had opened.* Oystermen clambered into their tug-like boats, chug-chugged to the beds, used big dredges to pull bivalves from the bottom, came home gunwales deep with shellfish. To landlubbers everything looked the same. But veteran oystermen knew better...
...developed a plastic operation to link the muscles of an amputated stump to an artificial arm so efficiently that the live muscles could operate the fingers of an artificial hand. In a new book two German refugee surgeons describe the classic Sauerbruch technique (Cineplastic Operations on Stumps of the Upper Extremity; Grune & Stratton...
...fashioned In the muscles of the arm, one in the flexors, one in the extensors. The surgeon marks out a two-inch square of skin above the elbow or wrist (on a handless arm), cuts it at the top, bottom and one outer edge. Then he rolls the upper and lower sides of the skin into a little tube and stitches them together. This leaves the underlying muscle exposed...