Word: elbow
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...mile. Just after passing the one-lap mark, Bingham passed Floto and closely followed Meredith. They both lengthened out on the far straightaway, drawing away from the rest of the field. Meredith and Bingham raced around the last turn with the latter on the outside at the Pennsylvanian's elbow. Down the final stretch they came in a final great sprit. Meredith's greater strength allowed him to keep slightly ahead and he crossed the finish line a winner by 1 1-2 yards. His time of 1 minute 53 seconds beat the former intercollegiate record by two-fifths...
...American student, according to Professor Reed, has never been able to enjoy the privilege every foreign student possesses: the opportunity to find old books for himself, to browse about shelves untroubled by a clerk at his elbow. Although students here are as fond of reading as those across the sea, there are no counterparts in this country of book stores near Charing Cross, London, or those of Oxford and Cambridge, or the cases of books along the Seine. Here even the library stacks are closed to students, and yet one of the surest ways to become interested in books...
...play up to standard. Two of the regulars were injured and had to be withdrawn from the contest; without them the men neglected all team-work and gave a good illustration of the disconcerted attack of an eleven in the throes of stage-fright. Splawn injured his elbow badly in the game and all of the men were badly battered...
...Osborn crossed the Seniors' goal line for a touchdown in the first period. The score was not allowed, however, because of the slightest of technicalities, one of the rowing members of the Junior eleven being detected holding his arms out straight instead of bent at the elbow...