Word: locking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plastic and aluminum affair weighing half a pound to a pound less than previous arms. Other advantages: a new wrist mechanism (for arms amputated below the elbow) which makes it possible to rotate the wrist in either direction; a steel cable, replacing smelly leather thongs; an improved elbow lock. The Northrop leg, similarly, is lighter, has a suction socket and locking knee...
...Lock and Key Tactics Used...
Making no secret of the University's methods, the printing department head nevertheless painted a discouraging picture for anyone thinking of taking the easy way out. "We get exams from the head of each course, lock it up until it's ready to be printed, and then afterwards lock up all the printed copies in our vault...
...favorites for the Ivy title in most books are Penn and Cornell, with Dartmouth, Princeton, and Harvard rated as strong contenders. Cornell, none too potent in prewar days, when Ossie Cowles' Dartmouth teams held a death lock on the league, now have two tall, capable performers in brothers Bob and Jim Gake, and a well-rounded attack that features guard Hillary Chollet. Until bowing to Canisius, the Ithacans had subdued Rochester, Niagara, Yale, Colgate and Vermont...
...product of progressive education and the Wagner Act, student strikes in the U.S. were on the rise last week. Some recent strikes and issues: in Rogersville, Tenn., for better teachers; in Lock Haven, Pa., against corporal punishment; in Chicago, because the boys wanted a football team and the girls wanted to wear slacks; in New York City, against Christmas homework; in Sapulpa, Okla., for a longer vacation. Sapulpa fathers formed a united front to break the strike, applied "woodshed tactics...