Word: bones
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Disney's mild-looking head for several years. Even before he did Snow White he had a vague notion of some day doing a serious opera in animovie style. As early as 1929 he raided the high-brow symphonic repertory to make Saint-Saëns' bone-rattling Danse Macabre into a Silly Symphony. But the idea did not really sprout until early in 1938, when Leopold Stokowski, on a visit to Hollywood, begged Disney to let him conduct the music for The Sorcerer's Apprentice, a Mickey Mouse short. Disney didn't know what...
...notebook which he invented for insurance salesmen. One day in 1935, oppressed by business cares and seeking distraction, he dropped into the museum, listened to a stock lecturer. When it was over he found that his cares had fallen away. He went to about 100 more lectures, began to bone up on geology, anthropology, mineralogy, meteoritics, zoology, paleontology...
Griswold has been puttering away at bone carpentry, improving fracture methods that were developed during World War I. He has patched hundreds of broken legs-with hammer and nails...
...painless, but it looks bad. First a patient's leg is anesthetized. Then two long steel pins, one-eighth of an inch thick, are hammered through the leg, above and below the fracture. A small steel mallet is used, and the pins are driven directly through flesh & bone, protruding about an inch on either side...
...Griswold machine"-a 20th-century model of the rack. The pins are connected on both sides to a kind of caliper and the leg is gently stretched until the two broken ends snap into place. While a surgeon "reduces" the fracture, his assistant watches the bone through a fluoroscope to make sure the ends are fitted. The leg stays in the machine...