Word: elbows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...injuries have handicapped the Crimson team, but it is believed that the substitutions will fill the gaps adequately. Thursday afternoon during the last preparatory work, Corson of the 145-pounders, injured his elbow and for some time it was thought his arm was broken. A physician rapidly called for diagnosed the case as an elbow out of joint. Corson is in no danger of permanent injury but he will be unable to wrestle for the rest of the year. Hayne in the 175-pound class has been kept off the mat for several weeks by an injury received early...
While going through a work-out in Hemenway Gymnasium yesterday, Corson of the 145-pounders injured his elbow severely and will be unable to wrestle for the rest of the year. His place on the squad will be taken by Hinkle in the Princeton meet, it was announced yesterday. The rest of the team which is to meet Princeton will include Turner, Sterns, Wood, and Howe who is re-replacing Hayne in the 175-pound class...
...every one knows, a cubit is the distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger. But there are five historical calculations for the cubit, the shortest being the Roman of 17.4 in., by which Jesus would have been 4 ft. 4.2 inches tall; the longest the Egyptian of 20.61 in., by which He would have been 5 ft. 1.83 in. tall* Dr. Harris doubtless has unpublished data on the subject...
...news of Viscount Kato's death, two completely dissimilar personalities flickered in the memory of diplomats familiar with Japan. First they recalled the silent, square-jawed Viscount himself ? direct, almost pugnacious, with the habit of rolling the sleeves of his kimono well above the elbow whenever work was to be done in the privacy of his home. The second personality that the diplomats recalled was the frail, timid-seeming man, who next to Admiral Togo was perhaps the greatest of Japanese naval strategists. He was Admiral Baron Tomasaburo Kato, Premier from 1922 until 1923, an actual...
This time it is a young boy that goes wrong. He is fired from college, takes to drink, involves himself with a designing chambermaid-all because his father spent too much time at the office and not enough at his offspring's elbow making friends. The father gets himself badly denounced by the flimsy youngster, who thereupon manages to pick himself up and fall in love with the proper girl...