Word: knee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tucked away in the second-floor recesses of the great, grey Department of Labor in Washington sits a little-known but influential man: Ewan Clague, commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. It is he, knee-deep in charts and statistics, who figures out how high the cost of living has gone. Last week he reported that his sensitive consumer price index (based on 200-odd household commodities) had advanced sharply (.6%) since Sept. 15 to an alltime high ceiling of 174.8%. (The base figure of 100% is based on living costs in 1939.) It would be considerably higher...
...foot five sophomore had things had own way underneath the boards in the second half. In the first, Crimson captain Ed Smith pulled down quite a few, but a twisted knee kept him out of the second part of the game. The injury is not serious, and Coach Norm Shepard expects his most experienced man to be all right...
...tells of the consternation caused during a discussion of coeducation by a Harvard and a Radcliffe student. The young man, declaring himself a mysoganist, was complaining that women were troublesome and a waste of time. Whereupon his companion cooed sweetly into the microphone, "Then why are you holding my knee...
Spears was outstanding as a freshman, but two knee injuries hold him back last year. An operation last December enabled him to reach full effectiveness this season. Spears, son of a former coach and All-American, was a football, basketball, and track star at Staunton Military Academy. He has since dropped basketball but is a weight man on the Yale track squad...
Fullback Motley, whose knee-action power makes fans think of the great Bronko Nagurski, also had a major place in Coach Brown's original plans. Brown first spotted the big Negro as a high-school player in Canton, Ohio, later coached him at Great Lakes. Motley became the leading ground-gainer of the old conference in his third year, and this week (with 746 yards) was leading the N.F.L...