Word: feet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...said: "When the American eagle has gained its ascendancy, as your great country has, its talons are tucked up underneath its body and not stretched out like a duck's feet. It is the symbol of might and dignity and yet the designer has given the grand old bird the feet of a duck...
Patriots boiled, not at politely perspicacious Ornithologist Knight, but at poetically licentious Hermon MacNeil, designer of the eagle which has been stamped on U. S. quarter-dollars since 1916. "Feet of a duck!" patriots muttered. "Designer MacNeil should be shown a flying eagle and made to try again...
...exhortation, in that moment when he silenced the pandemonium with an uplifted hand and said quietly, "Fellows, England expects every man to do his duty," it were superfluity to add a jot. Six thousand throats have bled themselves white cheering for the team so far this season. Twelve thousand feet have stamped in unison whenever an opposing pitcher showed the slightest tendency to waver. Harvard wants no flagging of this spirit...
Another event in which the Green can count on a first place without serious competition is the high jump. T. L. Maynard, last year's Sophomore who created a sensation by winning the intercollegiate high jump title with a leap of over six feet four inches is expected to take this event easily tomorrow. Although he was not been doing much over six feet this year, the best height that can be looked for from F. T. Burgess '30 or P. S. Brown '30 will fall under six feet...
...Moore '29 is in a class by himself for the meet tomorrow, as his recent heave of the javelin 191 feet two and one-half inches from scratch in the University handicap meet is well out ahead of Dartmouth's best. Harden won this event for the Green last Saturday by a throw of 167 feet eight inches...