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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Aside from technical weaknesses, the picture still presents some features that are a little hard to stomach. When Cary Grant, who plays the blinded flier, stutters a little over his first attempts to walk under the guidance of a dog and makes such remarks as "I've never handled controls like these before," or "Hey, let me learn to fly this ship!", his painful metaphors can be passed off as the result of embarrassment. But when Myrna Loy describes herself as a lowwing single-motored monoplane with a fair wingspread and "streamlined, so they tell me!", the whole idea...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 2/5/1935 | See Source »

...President's press conferences- and he makes free use of this method- the doors are locked so that none can walk out. And also, it all happens so quickly that one could not walk out even if he decided to make so valorous a gesture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Off the Record | 2/4/1935 | See Source »

...some shock. Then I said to myself, 'Be quiet-you are simply going through a minor experience.' Then it was all over. I could see, hear, breathe, feel and walk just as before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Bachelor's Cocktail | 2/4/1935 | See Source »

Thigh Brace. Ordinarily two months in bed are necessary before a broken thigh is strong enough to walk on. Dr. Roger Anderson of Seattle gets the patient out of bed in two days by drilling one hole in the femur just above the break and a second just below the break. He puts long steel pins through the holes and flesh and attaches steel braces to the pins. The braces prevent the leg from shortening, permit the patient to walk on crutches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Breakbones, Bonesetters | 1/28/1935 | See Source »

...time, the knee on that side will be lower than the knee of the unaffected side. A careful x-ray picture will also reveal the trouble. But none of these methods shows whether the infant will throw its hip out of joint as soon as it begins to walk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Breakbones, Bonesetters | 1/28/1935 | See Source »

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