Word: wristed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attempting to prevent baby confusion, maternity hospitals write the baby's family name on a piece of adhesive tape and fix it to the infant's body; or fasten a string of lettered beads or stamped metal tag to the child's neck and mother's wrist; or both. Registering a newborn's foot prints is not very reliable, because foot prints are not distinctive for some time after birth. Newborn children clench their fists so tightly that finger prints cannot be made. Dr. Kegel last week suggested a novel idea: stencil the infant's foot in suntan from...
...studying without some break of a recreational sort; instructors of the old school will claim the present day student has become lazy through easy curricula, and most students will rationalize their action by believing that recreation will freshen their minds and build up a physical reserve for their wrist to be used in the three-hour penmanship and memory contest...
...Batchelder '31, catcher on the University baseball team, will be out of the game for at least a month with a broken right wrist suffered in the Pennsylvania game last Saturday, it was learned yesterday. The injury of the star backstop occurred, as far as it is known, in the third inning of the Quaker fray, and was not known until yesterday...
...that his girl is living loosely, he remarks: "I been layin' awake for weeks hopin' she'd say something in her sleep." During the evening a policeman is riddled with a machine gun at the wagon's door, a pickpocket is apprehended and has his wrist deliberately broken by his captors, and the dope-peddling Italian proprietor of the wagon is shot down by the wife of an associate whose life he had threatened...
...into the Alpha Chi Rho fraternity. Told to let himself down from a three-story window by a rope looped to the sash, he climbed out. The rope slipped, gave way, tumbling him to the ground. His parents, in China, were notified that he had suffered a broken hip, wrist, ankle, that he might die. One William Billow, likewise a Freshman, likewise a fraternity neophyte, was told to go to Harrisburg and get Governor John S. Fisher's signature. He was arrested breaking into a window of the Executive Mansion, later released...