Word: uprighteously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grappling bridge upended on its rear towers. This experiment in posture has been fairly successful, although strains and maladjustments resulting from the perpendicular positions are still visible in the human makeup. Among the apes, gibbons run on two legs; gorillas and chimpanzees can take a few upright steps without using their arms as crutches. These apes, "living fossils" which have changed little in 12,000,000 years, have failed to adjust their centres of gravity to the upright posture...
Last week respectable scientists of the Yale faculty announced completion of an electric machine which does very much what Abrams claimed for his condemned Oscilloclast. Professor Harold Saxton Burr, upright Yale neuroanatomist, learned son of a professor in the Y. M. C. A. at Springfield, Mass, calls the Yale machine "a vacuum tube microvolt-meter for the measurement of bioelectric phenomena." In the current Yale Journal of Biology & Medicine he and his colleagues give precise instructions for building the diagnostic machine and the principles on which it operates, something which Albert Abrams never provided for his device...
That evening the huge Los Angeles Coliseum, 1932 Olympic stadium, was half-filled when Republican State Chairman Earl Warren arose to introduce Nominee Landon, who had not yet appeared. Spotlights picked out a distant gate, a band struck up Oh! Susanna, and into the stadium burst Alf Landon, upright in the back seat of an open car, waving his hat, grimacing under showers of confetti which pelted him as he circled the running track...
...their sloping icy shoulders. . . . He knew the chains of them well; the Ortler group with the tall lovely leaning body of the Ortler casting her shadow from exile on them, and the Venediger looking towards the lagoons of the Italian sea, and the two Glockners rising from their glaciers, upright from the brink of death." Pendennis Jones is a midwestern girl, married to an Englishman, who expresses herself in slightly dated wisecracks, bears a considerable family resemblance to the character of Brett in The Sun Also Rises. Sending her husband packing, by some measures not disclosed, Pendennis visits the doctor...
...Once while waiting for bewhiskered Auguste Rodin to keep an appointment at his studio, Sculptor Hoffman absentmindedly squeezed two sausage-shaped rolls of clay in her hand, was amazed to find that the pressure of her fingers had accidentally formed two upright figures, embracing. Said Rodin: "This is one of those accidents which one must catch and transform into science. You will keep this and model this group one-half life-size and cut it in marble - but before you do this you must study for five years." Five years later Malvina Hoffman finished her statue, called it Column...