Word: vertebrae
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...game, almost the entire Bunny backfield was hors de combat, with Hunt Hamill suffering a slight concussion and Louis Mills sustaining a broken vertebra...
...from the hospital came hourly bulletins on Schmeling's condition. His managers said he was badly hurt. Two days later, when Schmeling was sitting up in bed and X-rays of his "fractured vertebra" were published in the papers, disinterested doctors laughed at the excitement. Some called his injury just a sprained back. Others said it was an everyday occurrence on college football fields...
...material from the yachts of wealthy kudos-loving sportsmen. Dr. Frank H. H. Roberts Jr. revisited the Folsom deposits, oldest known site of human culture in the U. S. (about 20,000 years old). In Colorado he found one of the grooved Folsom arrow points actually imbedded in the vertebra of an extinct bison. Miss Frances Densmore continued recording Indian music, and Dr. J. R. Swanton pursued the route of Hernando de Soto through Georgia and South Carolina...
...Ocker, oldest pilot in the Army in point of service, was summoned to appear before a court-martial. Charge: insubordination-by using improper language to a superior officer (96th Article of War). Major Clyde C. Johnston had examined Pilot Ocker at Kelly Field, after he recovered from a broken vertebra, and grounded him for weak eyesight. Pilot Ocker, no friend of Kelly Field's hard-boiled com mander, Lieut.-Colonel Henry B. Clagett, took his re-examination at another field, managed to pass the eye test. Back he went to Major Johnston and, according to the court-martial charges...
...shoes before a cozy fire. When the President of the U. S. unexpectedly entered the room with His Britannic Majesty, there was big Jesse Jones of Texas, sprawled in a chair, dozing in his stocking feet. Besides his feet, Mr. Jones's spine troubles him. A dislocated vertebra has for some time prevented him from exercising. He is anything but sensitive about such things for in all his dominant doings he employs the homely, intimate touch. And he would be the last to approve titanic descriptions of himself. He masks, or maybe unmasks, his will-to-power with...