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Word: accidental (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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The accident occurred while Halloway was crossing the street with his seeing eye dog. A witness pulled a nearby fire alarm switch, summoning the fire department.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Trolley Hits Blind Colored Student | 2/9/1949 | See Source »

A child may have one leg shorter than the other because of injury, disease, or accident of growth. Whatever the cause, the cure has puzzled surgeons. They have tried various methods of evening up the legs-from shortening the long leg to lengthening the short one. Recently doctors have been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Slow Down | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

Porter knew no real struggle until he was 45, and at the peak of success. Then he undertook a gallant and successful fight to walk again, after a Long Island horseback-riding accident left him with compound fractures of both legs. Winning this fight took 31 operations (mostly to clear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Professional Amateur | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

The 1937 accident, which Porter seldom mentions and never complains about, has made him seem a more serious man than he once was. He is already at work on a score for a new show that Subber & Ayers plan for next fall; this week he leaves for Hollywood to help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Professional Amateur | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

But he still clings to the Porter plan for living. He will be back in Paris in the spring-his first trip to Europe since his accident. His mansion in the French capital is now occupied by a school, so the

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Professional Amateur | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

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