Word: uprights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cousin to famed Dr. Benjamin Rush, best known American physician of his day, signer of the Declaration of Independence. Rush figureheads were in such demand that he employed apprentices to help him chop them out. Among shipowners he was famed for reintroducing the vertical figurehead, a figure that stood upright on the cutwater instead of hanging horizontally over the sea. British ship carpenters stood teetering with sketch pads in little boats to copy the latest Rush figureheads when new U. S. clippers reached the Thames, and one, a "River God" for the Ganges, was greatly admired by impressionable Hindus. Though...
...indicated by the story of the diver sent down to investigate a wreck off Seraglio Point, who immediately signalled to be drawn up again, explained that "at the bottom of the sea was a great number of bowing sacks, each containing the dead body of a woman, standing upright on the weighted end and swaying slowly to and fro with the current." The number of children produced by harem mothers, and consequently the number of potential heirs to the Sultanate, made the problem of succession a congested one. Murad III, Sultan of the harem's boom days...
...included in Hollywood's dossier on the subject. Good shot: Fluther's technique in a barroom fight- fantastically complicated footwork, accompanied by no blows. A Doctor's Diary (Paramount) is a savagely derisive expose of conventional medical ethics, fairly screaming the sort of hospital anecdotes which upright members of the profession refrain even "from whispering. Its casting is as daring as its contention. Producer B. P. Schulberg has staffed it almost entirely with unknown players. John Trent, a self-assured young man of likely starring calibre, was until recently piloting a TWA transport. Ruth Coleman...
...Louisiana salt marshes cover nearly 20,000 sq. mi., worthless except as a wildlife sanctuary and for many rich "domes" of oil and sulphur which lie beneath. To locate these deposits is hard work. In most places the swamp is so treacherous it will engulf a man standing upright. In most places no normal vehicle can proceed. Prospectors have tried boats, rafts, carts with big wheels but still got next to nowhere. At last Engineer Abbot Atwood Lane of Gulf Oil Corp. thought up a contraption combining the best features of automobiles, tractors and boats. Last week, along the Bayou...
...then in the Alps. Officers whom he had taught at St. Anton got him the job of teaching skiing to officers in all the Alpine regiments. During the War, Hannes Schneider perfected his own technique in new directions. Favorite turn of Norwegian skiers was the dignified Telemark, executed standing upright, with the paunch extended, shoulders back. Hannes Schneider elaborated the racy Christiania-executed in a crouch with the shoulders forward, paunch tucked...