Word: walking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...place Harvard in a commanding position in a new field of applied science. While we cannot hope to produce aeronautical engineers or even pilots, undergraduates as well as graduates would receive knowledge of the fundamental operations of that most important operative factor in man's environment, the weather. We walk on the earth, and have done so in all past ages; but we also walk and live in the air, and are now beginning to utilize our power to spring from earth and traverse the air. The importance of knowing more about that medium is apparent...
...Carmen Reggio, obscure concert singer, last week wagered the Italian Artists' Alliance (of which Titta Ruffo, famed Metropolitan baritone, is president) that she could walk up stairs in less than half an hour. Mme. Reggio is 38 years old, she weighs 104 pounds, and the stairs to which she referred were the 1.358 steps of the 792-foot Woolworth Building, in Manhattan...
...stimulated the blood forming centres. The girls felt fine. Then destruction set in. The Symptoms. The girls became anemic. Teeth ached, became loose, fell out. Jaws decayed, agonizing rheumatic pains developed in the joints, long bones rotted, making the legs unequal in length. Quinta Maggia McDonald now can scarcely walk, her hip bones are so destroyed; she spends
...sleepless nights wondering whether her two children's lives are poisoned too. Her sister Albina Maggia Larice cannot walk at all. Her two children were born dead. Mrs. Edna Hussman hobbles about her household duties. Katherine Schaub developed pains in the skull. Her jaws crumbled; her features were curiously altered; then her mind sickened. For some time she was confined in a hospital for "nervous disorders." Her cousin Virginia Randolph is numbered among the first thirteen victims. Her death certificate read Vincent's Angina- Crippled Grace Fryer still sticks to her job. She has worked in a Newark...
...moments to dance playfully with lovely wistful Lorie. Aged five, Lorie was the professor's favorite child who had been allowed to stay up for a bit of the party. Content that the child should be made so happy, the old history professor wandered off for his evening walk, wondering if his enduring tenderness for Lorie was an evil contradiction of his sound intellectual belief that nothing was eternal but the past, that is to say, death. Pondering on these things, wondering too if justice consisted of more than sympathy, the professor trudged through the fog, down by the river...