Word: knee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cripple "pivotal" players. The former Harvard tackle posts Princeton as guilty of "dirty" foot ball in two games in which he took part. He makes ten "accusations" against the Princeton "football system." In most of them he names Harvard players who, he says, had a leg broken, or knees "badly twisted," or a wrist dislocated, or were otherwise disabled by a foul play. One of his charges is that "Princeton tackles, coming in under kicks, often do not try to block punts, but with high, powerful knee action rough up the defending halfback". Much of Hubbard's evidence must...
...absence of Captain Haggerty in the K. of C. Initiation mile run was a blow to the Crimson. The intercollegiate mile title-holder was expected to repeat the victory of former Captain Tibbetts in this event until he received a slight injury to his knee which kept him out of the meet. Hahn of Boston A. A. had an easy time taking, the mile event...
...election of H. t. Wenner '30 to the captaincy of the Freshman basketball team was announced last night, Wenner is from Northampton, Pennsylvania, and attended the Catasaugua High School there. He plays right forward on the 1930 quintet. An injured knee sustained in the Cushing contest kept him out of the recent Choate game...
Errata. Subsequent examination of the fossil discovered last autumn at Trinil, Java (TIME, Oct. 11), and reported everywhere as another skull of Pithecanthropus erectus, the Java apeman, showed the relic to be an elephant's knee cap. The "Southwestern Colorado Man," lately deduced from a set of Eocene teeth, was a myth, the teeth having proved to be those of an antique horse.?Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, Smithsonian Institution...
...insane with fuss-budgeting, shilly-shallying, dibble-dabbling, microscopic solicitude and spiritual myopia. As the young authors-to-be grew up, quick-witted, sensitive, gay, they must have talked together for hours about these people and their plight - perhaps in a meadow like the dewy one in their book Knee-High to aGrasshopper - and been consumed by that uncomfortable emotion which is a mixture of furious exasperation and profound pity. They must have compacted to make a united effort some day to sting, poke, wheedle, pat and charm all such people out of their bungalow souls into the big bright...