Word: collars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...important cog of the Crimson offensive machine was lost in Saturday's practice game when Bob Stuart broke his collar bone. It is almost certain that he will be unable to see service again this season...
...respirators consists of a copper hood which fits over the patient's abdomen from hips to ribs; the other of an aluminum hood which covers the entire torso from hips to collar bone. Intermittent air suction in the abdominal hood expands and contracts a patient's lungs by forcing his diaphragm up and down. Similar suction in the torso hood compels breathing by moving both the diaphragm and the chest wall...
...adopted him, named him Owney, fed him from their own lunches, let him sleep on mail sacks. Feeling safe wherever there was mail, Owney took to climbing onto trains with it and traveling off to other cities, always returning, however, to Albany. The Albany clerks eventually bought him a collar, stamped on it a request that post office clerks elsewhere attach to it the names of the offices Owney visited. When the collar became too heavy for Owney, the Albany clerks replaced it with a harness. He became a legend in post offices all over...
...thoroughly sombre background he is apt to pick that part of France-better known as the provinces-which is not Paris. Claude starts off with as much gloomy naturalism as the drabbest of them, and for the first 50 pages a normally cheerful reader may turn up his coat collar, wish it would stop raining. But if he perseveres beyond this chilling introduction he will soon feel such warming rays as will make his coat unnecessary. By book's end he will have been acclimatized to the varied weather of a whole human...
...Right," said the portly man. "You can tell a Freshman at a glance by the inexperienced manner in which he smokes his pipe, by the fifty per cent way he turns up his coat collar, and by the noise he makes with his friends in public. Right? I used to be a Freshman myself. But let me ask you another question, and that, I promise, is all. What do others at Harvard think of the Freshmen...