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Italian papers referred for the first time last week to the passo romano or Roman step, said it is done "by keeping the leg rigid and striking the foot violently against the ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Roman Step | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

...That he wrote a letter in 1924 to the Immanuel Church, Bellows Falls, Vt., asking for his left leg, which had been amputated when he was 21, and which his mother, Hetty Green, had buried in the family plot; and that he received the leg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 7, 1938 | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

...Sixty-five thousand people are totally deaf; 75,000 more are deaf & dumb; 200,000 lack a hand, arm, foot or leg; 300,000 have permanent spinal injuries; 500,000 are blind; 1,000,000 more are permanent cripples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Sickness Survey | 1/31/1938 | See Source »

...history, thumbnail sketches of military dictators whom he interviewed briefly, many an anecdote: of a brief but bloody revolution in Quito where the scattered human remains were collected by garbage trucks hurriedly daubed with Red Crosses; of an escaped convict from Devil's Island who murdered his peg-legged fellow fugitive, used the wooden leg to cook him with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: South American Jitters | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

...teams both wrestled their way to their third victories Saturday afternoon by defeating Tufts here. The score of the Varsity match was 17 1/2 to 10 1/2, and the best matches were those won by Captain John Harkness and Bill Daughaday. Bill Glendinning won in spite of a sore leg...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VARSITY, '41 MATMEN BOTH WIN THIRD TILTS | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

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