Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lionel Barrymore, 70, who has been trouping from a wheel chair since he broke his hip in a 1936 studio fall, might soon be back on his feet. He walked with the help of a handrail in his latest picture, now hobbles around the studio on crutches. After he sheds 20 pounds and gets fitted with a leather corset contraption, he will try walking without the crutches...
...Scriptures. Yet it requires correction, because it has obscured the foothills where human life must be lived. It started its theological assault decades ago with the reminder that we are men and not God, that God is in the heavens and that we are on the earth. The wheel is come full circle. It is now in danger of offering a crown without a cross, a triumph without a battle, a scheme of justice without the necessity of discrimination, a faith which has annulled rather than transmuted perplexity-in short, a too simple and premature escape from the trials . . . duties...
Nevertheless, it was the cheap ($700 f.o.b. France), amazingly efficient new Citroën that stole the Paris show. Features: a two-cylinder, air-cooled engine, that is said to get more than 60 miles to the gallon (at an average speed of 38 m.p.h.); front-wheel drive, all-round torsion-bar suspension, a fabric top that rolls up like a windowshade. Perhaps the strangest-looking car at the Paris show was the Dyna-Panhard's "Dynavia" whose ultra-Studebakerish use of glass gave it the air of an airplane cockpit (its two-cylinder engine gets 30 miles...
These 125-foot, 6,000-horsepower, 4-8-8-2 wheel arrangement, single expansion articulated engines, distinctive of this railroad, have an enclosed cab that puts enginemen right up front so they can see more easily what's around a curve. Smokestack at other end from cab could give the illusion of backward operation to one not familiar with this type locomotive...
...other big wheel, Michigan, had been turning slowly ,so far this season. It had a new coach, old Michigan Immortal Bennie Oosterbaan, as well as a few players left over from last year's Rose Bowl champions. Michigan barely got past Michigan State (13-7) in its first game, but picked up some momentum against Oregon (14-0), and last week crushed Purdue...