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This time the challenger for Joe Louis' crown is a student of yoga, 26-year-old Lou Nova who has boasted that he is a Man of Destiny, that he will knock out the Champion with his "cosmic punch" (straight from the seventh vertebra, center of balance), and the aid of his "dynamic stance," his controlled breathing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Black Moses | 9/29/1941 | See Source »

...more recently discovered Folsom site in Colorado, the Lindenmeier site, .appeared on geological evidence to be even older. A point was found there actually imbedded in a bison vertebra. Dr. Frank Harold Hanna Roberts Jr., of Dr. Hrdlicka's own Smithsonian Institution, put its age at 20,000 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Horatius at the Bridge | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

...game, almost the entire Bunny backfield was hors de combat, with Hunt Hamill suffering a slight concussion and Louis Mills sustaining a broken vertebra...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kirkland in House Football Lead; Elephants Upset | 10/14/1938 | See Source »

...from the hospital came hourly bulletins on Schmeling's condition. His managers said he was badly hurt. Two days later, when Schmeling was sitting up in bed and X-rays of his "fractured vertebra" were published in the papers, disinterested doctors laughed at the excitement. Some called his injury just a sprained back. Others said it was an everyday occurrence on college football fields...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fireworks | 7/4/1938 | See Source »

...material from the yachts of wealthy kudos-loving sportsmen. Dr. Frank H. H. Roberts Jr. revisited the Folsom deposits, oldest known site of human culture in the U. S. (about 20,000 years old). In Colorado he found one of the grooved Folsom arrow points actually imbedded in the vertebra of an extinct bison. Miss Frances Densmore continued recording Indian music, and Dr. J. R. Swanton pursued the route of Hernando de Soto through Georgia and South Carolina...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Smithsonian's Year | 10/26/1936 | See Source »

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