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...Black ("Dod") Orsborne and his brother Jim. From Great Grimsby on the Humber, last All Fools' Day, the Orsbornes and two other fishermen ran away with the new trawler Girl Pat, chugged south for an unknown destination (TIME, June 8 et seq.). Three months later, after a wild, zigzag cruise across the South Atlantic, the Orsbornes & crew were apprehended at Georgetown, British Guiana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Brothers' Barratry | 11/2/1936 | See Source »

Because of a strong wind, considerable difficulty was experienced at the start of the race. Eliot rammed the combination crew, forcing it into shore. On the second start, the combination crew was given a lead of two lengths, a lead which would have been kept except for the zigzag course pursued...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News from the Houses | 5/3/1933 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Labor Saver | 8/22/1932 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Pravda Scream | 2/22/1932 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: German Hygiene Museum | 6/2/1930 | See Source »

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