Word: feet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...behind the pitcher's mound. It was the same leg a German shell had shattered four years ago when Corporal Brissie, a bazooka man, was leading a squad in the mountains above Florence, Italy. It had taken 23 operations and 40 blood transfusions to put Brissie on his feet; for a minute it looked as if Williams' smash had undone everything. But after a five-minute rest, Brissie was ready to pitch again...
...Moines, nimble Harrison Dillard, a 24-year-old Negro, won his 55th straight race in the 120-yd. high hurdles (equaling his own Drake Relays record in 14.1). At Philadelphia, Michigan's mighty Chuck Fonville, a 20-year-old Negro, heaved the 16-lb. shot 56 feet (short of his own world's record but a new Penn Relays record...
...tigress by the tail. She is not assisted by a script which insists on sentimentally ennobling one of fiction's most vehemently average women. Irish-born Kieron Moore, Britain's newest cinematinee idol, is badly miscast as the debonair Vronsky; he appears to be an idol with feet of peat. The principals suffer further by comparison with Sir Ralph Richardson, whose Karenin fairly lumps out the screen with its three-dimensional reality...
That isn't all. Pudgy hammer-thrower Jim Burnham has broken the Dartmouth record in his event this spring and last week he won the Penn Relays hammer throw at about 171 feet. He may scare Sam Felton into hitting 180 feet today. Felton broke the Harvard record two weeks ago with a shot of 175 feet, 2 inches. This competition, plus the Kimball versus Pat McCormick duel in the 120 high and 220 low hurdles should provide the most spectator interest this afternoon...
Other men to watch: Don Trimble, who set a Harvard javelin record of 212 feet, 5 3/4 inches last Saturday; Captain Frank Gurley, who will double in the 880 and mile again today...