Word: igo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...siege of Pampeluna in 1521, a French cannon ball whizzed between the legs of a Basque knight named Íñigo de Oñez y Loyola, breaking his right shin and tearing his left calf. For the Roman Catholic Church, beleaguered by the Protestant Reformation, that shot was providential. Íñigo, laid up in his castle (and ever after afflicted with a limp), began thinking pious thoughts which led him, in 1534, to form a "flying squadron," the Society of Jesus, in the front ranks of the Church's Counter Reformation against Protestantism...
...James Igo of Boston University won the Freshman 1 7-10 mile race in 14 minutes, 13 4-5 seconds. Second was Robert Jay of Harvard, who lost in a final hundred-yard spurt with Igo. The first ten Freshman finishers are James Igo (BU), Robert Jay (H), George Byrom (BU), John Sopka (H), William Dias (H), Charles Robins (H), W.H. Young (H), Abbott Fenn (H), Tom McElligott (H), Richard Herlihy...