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The medical description of Mantle's injury was "an undisplaced, slightly oblique fracture of the third metatarsal neck"-in plain English, a broken bone in his left foot.

From Time Magazine Archive

The displacement of any sheet is proportional to its distance y from a particular sheet, which remains undisplaced.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 2 "Ehud" to "Electroscope" by Various

If, however, some of the hydrogen of the acid remain undisplaced, then “acid esters” result.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" by Various