Word: zigzag
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...University. Details of the Dodek device appeared in Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics. Essentially it consists of a plunger which pushes against the soft rubber lid of an air container. Every movement of the plunger changes the air pressure in the container. The changing pressure agitates a pen which writes a zigzag line on a moving sheet of paper. An aluminum tripod holds the device so that the exposed end of the plunger rests gently yet firmly near the patient's navel. For there is where she contracts and bulges most. There is no discomfort. Says Dr. Dodek: "The entire apparatus...
Misleading to many is the Moscow Government's "zigzag policy" which Stalin & Co. apply to nearly everything. Zig they go as far to the left as they dare; then zag to the right, biding their time; then zig again further to the left! Last week Moscow's famed Pravda, often the mouthpiece of Josef Stalin, zigged furiously at the kulaks (rich peasants...
...tall, black board, like memoranda on a bulletin board, are the 206 disjointed bones of an adult. One could actually see what one has been taught but scarcely believes, that the head is made up of a lower jaw and 21 other bones. (The 21 are fused together at zigzag joints to make the firm though perforated flask of the brain...
Sisley Huddleton, suave cosmopolite, journalist, bon vivant, author (In and About Paris; Louis XIV in Love and War; Europe in Zigzag) radioed to the Christian Science Monitor: A MORE DREARY SET OF NEWSPAPER MEN THAN IS NOW TO BE MET IN THE BRITISH CAPITAL IT HAS NEVER BEEN MY LOT TO ENCOUNTER...