Word: wrists
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...wheeled wagon which bore the contraption, a pump that sucked air like a vacuum-cleaner through long flexible tubes. One man led the mule and cart between ripe cotton bushes. At each side of the mule walked a man with a tube from the vacuum pump strapped to a wrist. These men darted their hands at ripe cotton; the tubes with a soft hiss sucked the white bolls from brittle pods. A swift-handed picker can gather several hundred pounds of cotton daily with this device...
...room at a time. Promptly after delivery a piece of adhesive tape is placed on the child's back, giving its name, date & hour of birth, sex and a lot number. As a further precaution the obstetrical (O.B.) nurse puts a numbered band on the child's wrist and on the mother's wrist another band numbered in duplicate. The method is like that which ornithologists use in bird marking...
...Honors. When Captain Lindbergh arrives in the U. S., he will find Barnum-scale welcomes wherever he goes-and U. S. railroad executives have offered him free transportation to any point. He will see his picture on U. S. Army recruiting billboards; his name in advertisements* for wrist watches, fountain pens, automobiles, what not. He will discover that the New York Daily News (tabloid) has distributed sepia photographs of him, "ready for framing," to its gum-chewing readers. He will see shopgirls wearing his features on their handbags, his monoplane models on their hats...
...Connecticut Yankee, Yale student and Annapolis graduate, once lost in a wrecked plane in Panama jungles, one of the U. S. Navy's most skilled pilots, with no living relatives except an aunt and an uncle -many a tribute was paid. Said Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd, whose own wrist was broken (TIME, April 25) when the New York-to-Paris Fokker monoplane America turned turtle: "Davis and Wooster were my old friends. I am shocked beyond expression. They were brilliant, courageous air pioneers. The loss to aviation is irreparable. . . . They would want me to ask the people of this...
...During the life of the Sapiro-Ford trial the following events were chronicled: Henry Ford was badly battered in an automobile accident. Stuart Hanley, lawyer for Mr. Ford, suffered a back strain. Two of Aaron Sapiro's children came down with scarlet fever. Milton Sapiro (brother) splintered a wrist in another automobile crash. Senator James A. Reed of Missouri, chief counsel for Mr. Ford, went to the Henry Ford hospital with an acute attack of gastrointestinal trouble. ... Superstitious observers whispered that the trial was hoodooed...