Word: insteps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...February 23.-- E. M. Wells, captain and star hurdler of the Dartmouth track team, will probably not be able to compete in the Triangular track meet between Harvard, Dartmouth, and Cornell in the Arena Saturday night. Wells is at present in the hospital suffering from an injury to his instep which he received as a result of a fall in the New York Athletic Club Games Monday evening. Hot compresses are being constantly applied in an effort to reduce the swelling, which persists despite all treatment...
Prince Yasuhito Chichibu-no-miya, second son of the Mikado, lay abed at Miirren, Switzerland. Now and then he twitched about and eased the pain-pricks darting through his left instep, recently strained by a sprawl upon the ice (TIME, Feb. 22). Several times he wakened in the night and wondered why he seemed to be growing pain-prickly all over...
...hours later Baron Hayashi announced, "At my urgent appeal His Royal Highness has consented to remain within his room for several days. The tendon of his left instep has been slightly strained. His Royal Highness has expressed his determination to resume his skating and skiing at the earliest possible moment, since he intends to leave Muerren shortly to visit the League of Nations at Geneva...
Therefore several sumptuously clad ladies uttered loud screams last week as the Prince executed a hair-raising spin on the ice, caught his left instep with the point of his right skate and crashed, sprawled...